New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected and "weighed" a galaxy - seen 600 million years after the Big Bang - that is ...

Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.

But the state-of-the-art space observatory has recently imaged two grand design spiral galaxies, and one appears to be the ...

You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies ...

Here’s how it works. Most of the atoms in your body likely spent millions of years circling the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt" before returning to our galaxy prior to the solar system's ...

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way ... of life "took the long way around" the galaxy before coming together ...