NASA's top five images from space include AG Carinae, the Crab Nebula with X-rays, the Andromeda galaxy in infrared, and Cassiopeia, a supernova remnant showing elemental gases.

Astronomers have captured a close-up image of a dying star in a galaxy beyond our own—the first time this has ever been achieved.. The star, WOH G64, is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a ...

If you look up in the sky at night at Cassiopeia, you'll notice a faintly glowing object located just off Schedar, the constellation's brightest star. That's the Andromeda galaxy, our closest ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

An estimated 100 billion stars make up the Milky Way.Our home galaxy stretches 100,000 light-years across, an astounding size that can be difficult to fathom until you sit outside on a dark night ...

The sun and the planets around it form part of the Milky Way Galaxy. "The Milky Way is a large barred spiral galaxy. All the stars we see in the night sky are in our own Milky Way Galaxy.

In the 1980s, a supernova explosion in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way heralded the first time physicists detected neutrinos from space. But their detectors weren’t very good.

There’s now a 50-50 chance this galaxy will crash into ours. Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda.

A new telescope image showcases two entangled galaxies that will eventually merge into one millions of years from now — and previews the eventual, similar fate of our own Milky Way galaxy.The ...

First images of Milky Way’s black hole released 02:13. Astronomers have discovered powerful "twisted" magnetic fields spiraling around the black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way ...

A new telescope image showcases two entangled galaxies that will eventually merge into one millions of years from now — and previews the eventual, similar fate of our own Milky Way galaxy.The Gemini ...

A new telescope image showcases two entangled galaxies that will eventually merge into one millions of years from now — and previews the eventual, similar fate of our own Milky Way galaxy.The ...