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

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

Peering deep into the dusty heart of our Milky Way galaxy using infrared vision, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals a rich tapestry of more than half a million stars. The Milky Way Galaxy ...

The technology that would allow humans to leave the Milky Way is barely imaginable, but it seems the carbon and oxygen that ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant ...

Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy that existed about 600 million years after the Big Bang ...

And it looks a lot like our galaxy, the Milky Way. "The extraordinary images—taken with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—show a galaxy that glitters with 10 distinct star clusters that ...

revealing new clues about what our own galaxy, the Milky Way, may have looked like billions of years ago. In new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the galaxy appears as a long ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy ... The second of three images of ESO’s GigaGalaxy Zoom project ...