In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

Giant radio galaxies (GRGs) are massive, with plasma jets powered by supermassive black holes at their centers, stretching ...

This discovery now allows astronomers to witness the birth of a super star cluster in our neighboring galaxy. The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 light ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

The researchers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe Westerlund 1, a so-called super star cluster ... 1 is located across the Milky Way galaxy about 12,000 light-years from ...

That means it's more than 30 times the size of our own Milky Way galaxy. It's also enigmatic ... it's especially surprising given the galaxy's location. Inkathazo is nestled amid a cluster of other ...

Explore the breathtaking beauty of the cosmos with seven incredible images of star clusters and galaxies captured by NASA.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy ... what our Milky Way galaxy might have looked like at the same stage of development. Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, this young ...

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...

This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and a birthplace for billions of stars. The cluster is approximately ...