Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

This is a clear picture of the moon taken with a long zoom lens with the milky way in the background The supermoon kicks off ...

Witnessing the Milky Way is a profound experience. This article highlights ten premier global locations for stargazing. From ...

The Milky Way galaxy, comprised of billions of stars, will be visible in the night sky until the end of May, particularly between the last quarter moon (May 20) and the new moon (May 30). Light ...

Just in time for Christmas, a vast star-forming region shaped like a Christmas tree is lighting up space 2,700 light-years from Earth.

Toronto (CTV Network) — A new study done by physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that stars at the edge of the Milky Way travel more slowly than those closer to the ...

How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent results from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), including reports of ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

Scientists have made the first image of the Milky Way using neutrinos. The extremely low-mass subatomic particles have no electric charge, and pass easily through gas, dust and even stars on their way ...

The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...