Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

Are you here because you have an astronomy exam tomorrow and the only things you know are that the Milky Way and Mars are ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

There’s plenty of action at the center of the galaxy, where a supermassive black hole (SMBH) known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) literally holds the galaxy together. Part of that action is the creation ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...

has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away from the Milky Way, ...

Spur and gap features seen in Milky Way’s GD-1 stellar stream could be caused by a self-interacting dark matter subhalo. New research points to a dark matter subhalo as the architect behind the unique ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

Astronomers have struggled with finding ultra-faint dwarf galaxies far enough from the Milky Way's influence, making these ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy – seen 600 million years after the Big Bang – that is ...