Cosmic archeologists have used the James Webb Space Telescope to excavate ancient disk galaxies that tell the story of how ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged a star located outside the Milky Way galaxy. The subject, WOH G64, is a red supergiant situated roughly 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists captured the first-ever close-up picture of a star outside of the Milky Way galaxy, ushering in a new era of cosmic study. The European Southern Observatory (ESO ...

Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

How special is the Milky Way Galaxy? A 'saga' about 101 galaxies like the Milky Way and their companions Date: September 25, 2024 Source: University of Utah ...

Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. A team of astronomers from England used that farthest point to determine that the diameter of the ...

A minority view, however, held that the Milky Way was only one "island" of stars, gas, and dust, and that there were other such islands beyond. View a video of the Andromeda Galaxy from Seeing in ...

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

This also revealed that, in some cases, carbon can be found up to 400,000 light-years outside its host galaxy — a distance around four times wider than the Milky Way. Sign up for the Live ...