Researchers have found that there's something highly unusual about the Milky Way, setting it apart from other galaxies. As ...

Astronomers have long used the Milky Way as a benchmark for studying galaxy formation and evolution, assuming that its ...

Astronomers have observed a cosmic collision of extraordinary magnitude as the galaxy NGC 7318b plowed into its neighbors at ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's brand-new image of the Sombrero Galaxy casts this city of stars in a new light — ...

Webb’s Powerful Mid-Infrared Instrument Resolves Clumpy Nature of Dusty Disk Astronomers are known for their precision, but ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 4694, a galaxy that possesses unusual properties that complicate its ...

For years, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. But new research ...

Astronomers often use the Milky Way as a standard for studying how galaxies form and evolve. Since we’re inside it, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows off its infrared capabilities once again in new imaging of the well-known ...

A new mid-infrared image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features the Sombrero galaxy, also known as Messier ...

"What in the Milky Way caused these small, lower-mass satellites to have their star formation quenched?" The findings suggest our galaxy's evolutionary history is strikingly different, setting it ...

"What in the Milky Way caused these small, lower-mass satellites to have their star formation quenched?" The findings suggest our galaxy's evolutionary history is strikingly different, setting it ...