In the vast universe, a grand event spanning billions of years is quietly brewing—the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope recently got a front-row seat to some incredible stellar fireworks on the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy. The eruption of gases from a stellar jet in a ...

Ursa Major III/Unions 1 (UMa3/U1), the faintest known satellite of our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more ...

Astronomers have recently made groundbreaking discoveries about our Galaxy, revealing complex structures and dynamics that were previously hidden. The latest research, stemming from the Three-millimet ...

Astronomers have detected a massive gamma-ray explosion coming from outside the galaxy. The explosion's origins and power are ...

Discover 9 breathtaking Milky Way images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, revealing the galaxy’s stunning structure ...

An explanation of why some argue it's better to photograph the Milky Way in summer and how to do it, including the best ...

The Milky Way, our warped spiral galaxy, spans 120,000 light-years and hosts over 200 billion stars, including our Sun. It's ...

At a wind farm in Zunyi, Guizhou province, summer nights are marked by clear skies and an expanse of stars. [Photo by Wu ...

Stellar migration may greatly increase the number of habitable planets in the Milky Way. Future ESA missions will test these predictions with detailed exoplanet observations. What can the Galactic Hab ...

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over globular clusters, the dense star systems that orbit galaxies without dark matter ...

Behind the dusty clouds of the Cigar Galaxy lies a dazzling powerhouse of star formation, where stars are being born ten times faster than in the Milky Way. Astronomers using the Hubble Space ...