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

( 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.

Astronomers have achieved a breakthrough in star formation research with the detection of protostellar jets in the outer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Near-infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope revealed five early universe galaxies merging within a large halo.

Astronomers have made a remarkable discovery that sheds new light on how stars are born. Using the powerful Atacama Large ...

A new study puts Ursa Major III, a ghostly satellite of our Milky Way, under the microscope. A ghostly object orbiting the Milky Way has left astronomers questioning its composition: Is it a ...

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 ...