If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Goodnight Gaia. The European Space Agency star-tracking satellite ceased operations on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, after 12 ...

The video then transitions to a dazzling night scene, revealing a star-filled sky with the Milky Way stretching across the horizon. A screenshot from a TikTok video capturing the Milky Way at ...

If you look up in the sky at night at Cassiopeia ... it will collide with the Milky Way, throwing our solar system away from our own galactic core and reshaping the two galaxies into a single ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...

So, every night for 15 years ... telescope spies stunning 'Firefly Sparkle' galaxy — a baby clone of the Milky Way being 'assembled brick by brick' in the early universe As the clouds of ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

Spur and gap features seen in Milky Way’s GD-1 stellar stream could be caused by a self-interacting dark matter subhalo. New research points to a dark matter subhalo as the architect behind the unique ...

New images show a galaxy forming that is similar to what our Milky Way’s mass might have been ... or swarm of lightning bugs on a warm summer night. Lamiya Mowla, co-lead author of the paper ...