In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, a team at George Mason University is heading a project to construct and launch a ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

Dubbed 'Porphyrion' after a mythological Greek giant, this immense structure originated when the universe was just 6.3 ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has provided groundbreaking data from near the edge of the solar system, revealing the cosmic ...

An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek ...

The newly discovered black hole-driven jets extend over 7 megaparsecs or 23 million light-years.

NASA's Webb Peers Into the Extreme Outer Galaxy Sep. 12, 2024 — Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has recorded spectacular images of star formation in the extreme outer reaches of the Milky ...

The plumes stretch farther than any yet seen, reaching millions of light-years long and potentially influencing the cosmos ...

We live on one tiny planet orbiting a star that's tucked away in the far reaches of a galaxy — just one galaxy of around 2 trillion in the known universe. Space is really really big. Planet Earth is ...

17, 2024 — With the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of scientists has found more black holes in the early universe ... outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers have discovered twin black hole jets that span a distance greater than 140 Milky Way galaxies long, the biggest jets found yet.