The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a baby, Milky Way-like galaxy that formed more than 13 billion years ...

"The KBC supervoid is a region that is about 20% less dense than the cosmic average, centered roughly where we are and ...

On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Simon Marius. The Andromeda galaxy is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, and ...

That's the Andromeda galaxy, our closest galactic neighbor ... of the "limits" of galaxies and how they interact (and even ...

NASA's Webb Peers Into the Extreme Outer Galaxy Sep. 12, 2024 — Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this ...

From the mystique of the Pillars of Creation to a sneak peek into the the deepest parts of our universe, check out these 10 ...

A few young stars shine through dense clouds of gas and dust in the Orion Nebula ... a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way that ...

But not everything in our galaxy (or beyond) is the outcome of such ostentatious chaos. Some of the most visually captivating ...

The Sombrero galaxy looks entirely different in a new image by the James Webb Space Telescope. Instead of a Mexican hat, it ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The clusters are 1,70,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a ...

The Andromeda nebula — the name astronomers then gave to all kinds of fuzzy objects in the night sky — wasn’t inside the Milky Way galaxy ... there’s hardly any space between them.

The headline read: Finds Spiral Nebulae are Stellar Systems ... to other Cepheids across the Milky Way. This is how Shapley reached his estimate for our galaxy's size. But, in order for ...