( Nanowerk News) If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the Universe: it’s just a tiny dot which, together with a huge number of other tiny dots, forms clusters that aggregate into ...

Today, let's talk about some of the perplexing phenomena in the universe. The universe is vast, hiding countless galaxies, ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

A blowtorch of seething gases erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA's James Webb Space ...

Most stars in the Milky Way move at steady speeds, orbiting the galactic center in regular paths. But astronomers have ...

The small red objects discovered by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provide scientists with new insights into the origins of galaxies in the universe and may represent a completely new type ...

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 ...

Tiny red objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are offering scientists new insights into the origins of ...

A swarm of galaxies called the Bullet Cluster is the biggest, best natural laboratory for studying dark matter that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a pair of polar jets from a protostar in the fringes of the Milky Way. The pair ...

That’s the scenario painted by a new study, which finds that if alien civilizations exist, they are probably rare, distant, and most likely millions of years older than humanity. According to the ...

A giant explosion that lit up the sky didn't just rock the cosmos – it absolutely rattled our understanding of the Universe's ...