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

Happy Galaxies Day! A century ago tonight, Edwin Hubble exposed a photograph at the 100-inch telescope on Mt. Wilson whose ...

The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth. Our solar system takes about 240 million years to orbit the Milky Way just once ...

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 ...

During the early morning of Monday 8 September, the full Moon will move into the shadow of Earth and be totally eclipsed. The ...

Scientists have speculated that the cloud would have an unusual smell due to the presence of ethyl formate – which is what ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

Many stars in our galaxy exist in pairs. Now scientists are finding clues that our Sun may once have had a companion of its ...

Telescope examines atmospheres of exoplanets, searches for signs of life, focuses on universe's 1st stars, galaxies, objects ...

Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have three exoplanets in its orbit; each, it would turn ...

"This provides only a brief window on cosmic timescales to observe such a binary system — and ... stunning 'Firefly Sparkle' galaxy — a baby clone of the Milky Way being 'assembled brick ...

Binary star D9 found orbiting Sagittarius A* near Milky Way's core D9 formed near black hole, defying star formation theories Researchers plan future studies with advanced telescopes ...