Research shows that galaxies form inside gigantic haloes of dark matter, the elusive substance that doesn't interact with ...

The name for our galaxy comes from the ancient Greek words for ‘milk’ or ‘milky’. They could only see it as a bright band of ...

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

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

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

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

The star, WOH G64, is situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a smaller galaxy that revolves around the Milky Way and is ...

More than 99% of Americans live under skies polluted by light. But dark skies at the Grand Canyon and more than 145 other ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over the intense heat and persistence of the fiery hot gas surrounding the Milky Way.

Astronomers have taken a superdetailed, zoomed-in photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud's "behemoth star." The stunning image, ...

The collision in Stephan's Quintet was observed by WEAVE, a new instrument on one of the world's most powerful telescopes, in ...

Much of the mass in the universe lies not in stars or galaxies, but in the space between them, known as the intergalactic ...