Astronomers have long used the Milky Way as a benchmark for studying galaxy formation and evolution, assuming that its ...

Greetings everyone! You can still see all five planets in your personal sky, two in the morning and three in the evening. But ...

The infrared-light image captured by the JWST's MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) reveals the galaxy in a totally different way ...

Edwin Hubble's revelation in 1924 that the Andromeda Nebula was, in fact, an 'island universe,' was a pivotal moment in our ...

On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

• Antares – “Scorpion’s Heart”, a giant red carbon star in Scorpius, found about 550 light-years away, and 10,000 times brighter than our sun! • M4 – a globular cluster of stars, discovered in 1746, ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a small galaxy, just a tenth of the Milky Way’s mass. It is about 160,000 light years away, which is remarkably close in cosmic terms. In the southern hemisphere it spans ...

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

Hubble captures the aftermath of the Large Magellanic Cloud’s dramatic encounter with the Milky Way, revealing the loss of ...