A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

In 2021, two objects were discovered in data from the AKARI space telescope over the ... Both also reside in an outer part of the Milky Way galaxy. They note that either or both could be dense ...

open image in gallery A group of researchers say they’ve found mysterious ‘space tornadoes’ in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. They used the largest astronomical project in existence to ...

A sparkling stellar nursery appears reminiscent of the early universe in new images from the Hubble Space Telescope ... at the end of an outer spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy, Sh2-284 lacks ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone ... new filamentary structure in this mysterious region of space. Although the galaxy's central molecular zone (CMZ) has long been known to be ...

which helped them pinpoint the edge of our galaxy, at about 950,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way. “In many analyses of the Milky Way halo, its outer boundary is a fundamental ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on. After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft ...