New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

Explore the James Webb Space Telescope's incredible discovery: a cosmic alignment revealing the teenage years of our Milky Way galaxy.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new details of the Cartwheel Galaxy, uncovering insights into star formation and its central black hole. This vibrant portrait of our Milky Way ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Astronomers have identified what could be the largest structure ever observed in the known universe—a vast network of galaxy ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

The research team said these rings likely formed when a smaller galaxy shot through the heart of the Bullseye galaxy roughly ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

The Gaia telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy. Its findings have flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head and have led to ...

NASA's SPHEREx mission, set to launch in February 2025, will utilize an advanced infrared telescope to map the entire sky in ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.