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

Alternative to fireworks? Stargazers could instead catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...

Compact ruddy galaxies seen by the James Webb telescope confound astronomers. Having very little spin at birth may explain the galaxies’ small sizes.

Powered by the largest digital camera ever built, Rubin Observatory has taken its first images—millions of stars and galaxies ...

From a bar in the clouds to finding more water from the Moon, outer space is constantly surprising us. A vast universe Think back to what you learned about astronomy in elementary school. If you’re ...

Giant molecular cloud (GMC) encompassing the mass of 160,000 suns, reportedly graces the Milky Way Galaxy 23,000 light years ...

Published on June 23 first images of the new Vera Rubin Observatory, showing more than 10 million galaxies around the Virgo ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

This portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope puts the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 in the spotlight. The galaxy is ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...