"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

First-light images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have revealed a 163,000-light-year stream of stars emanating from the ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

The size of the universe depends on its shape, with possibilities ranging from finite and spherical to flat or even infinite.

NASA has shaken up the universe once again, this time through the discovery of the fastest object ever spotted, which ...

The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...

First, a quick overview: the Milky Way is classified as a disk galaxy, with a broad circular collection of stars, gas and ...

James Webb Space Telescope's mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) noticed an infrared flare from the Milky Way's supermassive black ...

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

These young, hot blue stars are members of the Pleiades open star cluster and resides about 430 light-years away in the ...

With the government reopened, the space agency at last released pictures captured by a fleet of government spacecraft of an ...

A University of Arizona-led team has used a camera orbiting Mars to capture the closest images yet of a rare interstellar ...