This image from the James Webb Space Telescope features a bright H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite ...

By peering into the cosmic dance of stars, a team led by researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP ...

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

revealing new clues about what our own galaxy, the Milky Way, may have looked like billions of years ago. In new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the galaxy appears as a long ...

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 ...

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

The extraordinary images -- taken with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope -- show a galaxy that glitters with 10 distinct star clusters that formed at different times, much like our own Milky Way.

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

And it looks a lot like our galaxy, the Milky Way. "The extraordinary images—taken with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—show a galaxy that glitters with 10 distinct star clusters that ...

Extraordinary new images released by NASA have captured the formation of a galaxy similar in mass to our own Milky Way in its early stages of development. The James Webb Space Telescope has ...

The galaxy is estimated to have formed 100-400 million years before its evolutionary stage that was observed by Webb, the most capable space telescope ever deployed. "The Milky Way began forming ...