Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

Cassiopeia is observable in the autumn and winter throughout the Northern Hemisphere. It lies opposite the Sun in early October ... it’s in the Milky Way’s plane, so plenty of dust and ...

Early civilisations used to track the movements of the Sun, Moon ... planets and nebulas. The image captures the beauty of one of the brightest stars in Milky Way galaxy. According to NASA ...

This combination is fantastic for studying the structure of the galaxy.” This image, captured with the VISTA infrared survey telescope, shows the central part of the Milky ... [+] Way and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

Japanese astronomers are among an international research team that successfully captured the first image ... of the Milky Way, which could shed light on the formation of our galaxy.

Every star that you see in the sky is part of the same enormous galaxy ... Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*. It has a mass more than 4 million times the mass of the sun ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic collision. NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy ...

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way ... a galaxy. Visualisation of the gas shroud of starburst galaxy IRAS 08339+6517. What was seen in the unique images ...