A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across, containing roughly 200 billion stars, and our solar system is located about 26,000 light-years from its center. It takes ...

These stunning celestial formations, captured using advanced space telescopes, reveal intricate details of stars at various ...

Astronomers have found what appears to be the closest supermassive black hole outside of our own Milky Way galaxy. This giant black hole is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the closest satellite galaxy ...

It's all happening at the Majura sunflower maze. I like telling local stories and celebrating Canberra. Email: megan.doherty@canberratimes.com.au I like telling local stories and celebrating ...

Young stars coming to life out of the proverbial celestial dust is perhaps the most captivating sight in the cosmos. Check ...

The Milky Way is jam-packed with celestial objects. The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy composed of an estimated 300 billion stars, along with dust, gas, and celestial phenomena such as nebulae, ...

Not only can you camp for a few days, enjoying the peace and solitude of nature, but this park in Florida also happens to be one of the best places to snag a glimpse of the Milky Way, too. Since ...

This barred spiral galaxy NGC 2283 exhibits a ... These stars are actually located in our own Milky Way galaxy and lie between the telescope's line of sight and NGC 2283.

What are you, SIMP 0136? Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way galaxy. It's rapidly spinning, and at some 13 ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope captures a nearby spiral galaxy, NGC 2283, blazing with newly formed stars.

However, a few months later that emission was turning up at night, and Jansky concluded the hiss was actually radio emissions from the Milky Way. The astronomical community did not receive the news ...