The National Park Service encourages visitors to visit after dark to witness thousands of stars with the naked eye. The ...

WOH G64 lies within the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the small galaxies that orbits the Milky Way. Astronomers have known ...

The collision in Stephan's Quintet was observed by WEAVE, a new instrument on one of the world's most powerful telescopes, in ...

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

Astronomers often use the Milky Way as a standard for studying how galaxies form and evolve. Since we’re inside it, ...

A brand-new James Webb Space Telescope image captures the steady, slow lifestyle of the distinctive Sombrero Galaxy.

An international team of researchers has made new observations of an unusual supernova, finding the most metal-poor stellar ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over the intense heat and persistence of the fiery hot gas surrounding the Milky Way.

In a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a galaxy named for its resemblance to a broad-brimmed Mexican hat appears more like an archery target. In Webb’s mid-infrared view of the ...

Physicists find themselves wishing upon a star (to explode) to solve one of the most frustrating questions in science.

An astrophysicist and his team have made history by capturing the first-ever close-up image of a star in another galaxy.

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...