Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

ESA's Gaia star surveying satellite launches ... biggest and most precise map of the Milky Way, providing the clearest reconstructed view of how our galaxy might appear to an outside observer.

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

Our sun and the planets that circle it are part of a galaxy called the Milky Way. Its name comes ... So it is with telescopes ...

Containing dust, planets and an estimated 100 billion stars, our Milky Way Galaxy will be putting ... U.S. While Americans would be able to see the galaxy sometime from early February to late ...

These stars are traveling so fast that they will escape the gravitational clutches of the Milky Way or any nearby galaxy. Astronomers refer to these as "hypervelocity" stars. "It is astounding to ...

The Milky Way’s small satellites appear to have all shut off their star formation ... has yet to view the system. JWST or NASA’s upcoming Roman Space Telescope could nail down the galaxy ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars ... ingested from another galaxy 10 billion years ago. Measuring ongoing vibrations in the disk of the Milky Way — a kind of galactic seismology ...