Hawaiian stargazers got a particularly special treat recently.

Observations of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, collected by the James Webb Space Telescope, have allowed scientists to better understand how this cosmic ...

Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

Scientists once thought the early universe didn't make them.

In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

The most-studied galaxy in the universe – the Milky Way – might not be as “typical” as previously thought, according to a new study. The Milky Way, which is home to Earth and its solar system, is host ...

He cited the astronomical gaffe in January, when The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., announced the discovery of an ...