Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has almost completely depleted the cold gas propellant that kept it spinning and ...

Pettit is now in the midst of his third stint on the International Space Station, and the decade he had to prepare for his ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Always good to see you. So help us understand more ... is an awful lot about the early formation of things like the Milky Way Galaxy in ways we have never seen before. The James Webb Telescope ...

Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...

By reconstructing stellar orbits using real Milky Way stars with accurately determined parameters, the team quantified the galaxy's mass-weighted chemical abundances and age structure. This ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way ... of life "took the long way around" the galaxy before coming together ...

It’s beautiful but also a reminder of the ultimate fate that awaits our own Milky Way galaxy. The image was captured using the NOIRLabs’ International Gemini Observatory. NOIRLabs says that ...