The James Webb Space Telescope has made an extraordinary discovery, spotting a galaxy forming some 13 billion years ago. This breakthrough provides invaluable insights into the universe’s earliest ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have detected what could be the oldest galaxy ever observed, ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

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 ...

NGC 3603-A1 is a pair of giant stars locked in a rapid 3.8-day orbit. Their dynamic relationship provides clues to how massive stars evolve and form black holes. A team of astronomers combined archiva ...

A possible galaxy named Capotauro may have formed within 90 million years of the big bang – but astronomers can’t be sure ...

But over the summer, 3I/ATLAS, has plunged toward the inner solar system—and the fireworks show has begun in earnest. When ...

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

August has been a month jam-packed with cosmic phenomena visible from Earth – from nebulas to meteor showers to planetary conjunctions. But the month isn't over yet. And now, add to the mix one of the ...