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

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...