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

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way.

Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and destruction that shapes our galactic environment. Scientists may have unco ...

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

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...

Dec. 11, 2024 — Stunning new photographs by a team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images give us an ...

I am constantly amazed by the new things I’m learning about the world, the universe and everything, and the new things scientists are discovering every day. How everybody isn’t in ...

To make the historic discovery, the team of researchers turned to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and its high-resolution power to reveal 44 individual stars in a galaxy so far away, that its ...

working to reveal our Galaxy’s present-day structure and unravel its evolutionary history. The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission to map the position and motion of around 1.8 billion stars has ...

Maybe you received a telescope during the holiday season, or perhaps you’ve gifted yourself with a scope. I want you to get ...