Rwanda says it's talking with the US about taking in third-country deportees. Here's why ...

A remarkable new study using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered shocking details about a star-forming region ...

Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way galaxy may notice something odd overhead this month: barely any milk in that way.

Sagittarius C, a turbulent region near the Milky Way’s center, is glowing with hot plasma and threaded by magnetic fields, ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars and having a dark, undulating curve running ...

JWST detects early galaxy Zhúlóng at redshift z=7.3 Galaxy formed just 800 million years post-Big Bang Zhúlóng shares a spiral structure with the Milky Way ...

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With ten billion of these stars scattered through our Milky Way galaxy, even a tiny fraction hosting temperate rocky worlds would translate into a staggering number of potential abodes. The next step ...

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Instead of a relatively distant dark galaxy, Westmeier thinks the object is more likely a regular gas cloud at the edge of the Milky Way. “I’m very skeptical about the claims that they’re ...

Scientists have spotted what appears to be a fully-formed spiral galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, from just 1 billion years after the Big Bang. Named Zhúlóng (meaning “Torch Dragon” in Chinese ...

A galaxy from the early cosmos appears to mirror our Milky Way in shape, size, and structure—something no one expected to see so soon. Ancient Light Reveals a Familiar Shape Astronomers have ...