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

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 ...

After over a decade of stellar service, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft has been retired – but its legacy is just beginning. From ...

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

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would ... radio pulses: a dead star, called a white dwarf, that ...

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.

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the stuff at scale.

Today astronomers are saying goodbye to a remarkable spacecraft: a telescope that has observed nearly two billion stars ... galaxy, and so far it has revealed the structure of the Milky Way ...

While the galaxy’s center ... The findings offer a more detailed view of what happens in the Milky Way’s center, and suggest that there’s a cyclical process of material circulating there.