A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
Gaia, the European Space Agency’s observatory that is mapping the Milky Way, has completed the sky-scanning phase of its ...
The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.
High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.
The result is an impressive panorama, revealing approximately 200 million stars and extending six times the apparent diameter ...
Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...
Recently, a team of astronomers made an extraordinary discovery: a new giant radio galaxy (GRG) named Inkathazo, detected ...
The latest one in this class is even more puzzling. It has been dubbed Inkathazo, and it is truly massive, with cosmic jets spanning 3.3 million light-years from one end to the other. That’s ...
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.
A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...
Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...
The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...