Scott Aspinall and a small crew travelled to northern Saskatchewan to capture the Milky Way's core from the east side of ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over the intense heat and persistence of the fiery hot gas surrounding the Milky Way.

A brand-new James Webb Space Telescope image captures the steady, slow lifestyle of the distinctive Sombrero Galaxy.

For decades, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form. But three new studies raise ...

Scientists have finally imaged a star outside of the Milky Way for the first time. Here's what it looks like and how they did ...

Scientists announced Thursday that they had taken the first zoomed-in image of a dying star beyond our galaxy. The star is ...

The star, situated in a galaxy orbiting our own tens of thousands of light-years away, may be on the verge of a spectacular ...

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.

On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

"For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way." ...

An international team of researchers has made new observations of an unusual supernova, finding the most metal-poor stellar ...

Five telescopes of the H.E.S.S.-collaboration in Namibia are used to study cosmic radiation, especially gamma radiation. With ...