How big is the Milky Way really? In this episode, we scale up from our “cosmic backyard” to the true vastness of the galaxy.

The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and ...

Astronomers have presented a unique cosmic structure resembling a Christmas tree, formed by new stars in the NGC 2264 region, ...

A single photograph taken from orbit has managed to make a rare visual connection between the mundane life on Earth and the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may have detected the universe's oldest stars, believed to have formed shortly after the ...

A record-bright LFBOT exposes violent encounters between black holes and stars, helping astronomers understand extreme black ...

The FLAMINGO super simulation maps the universe from its earliest moments but finds galaxies cluster less than cosmological ...

Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

Astronomers have found a colossal spinning structure in space. Galaxies within this formation appear to spin together with a ...

Astronomers have identified a massive cloud of water vapor surrounding a distant quasar, marking the largest single reservoir ...

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.

Just in time for Christmas, a vast star-forming region shaped like a Christmas tree is lighting up space 2,700 light-years ...