Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for ...

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...

You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round ...

Spur and gap features seen in Milky Way’s GD-1 stellar stream could be caused by a self-interacting dark matter subhalo. New research points to a dark matter subhalo as the architect behind the unique ...