After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.

Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

Sgr A*, in turn, is dwarfed by some supermassive black holes detected in other large galaxies such as one with a mass 6.5 billion times greater than that of the sun in a galaxy called Messier 87. That ...

The Milky Way rotates counterclockwise ... is also the horizon of the visible universe," said Space.com (a sister site of The Week). In turn, "each and every black hole in our universe could ...

Scientists suspect lightweight dark matter might ionize hydrogen in the Milky Way’s core. This could also explain the 511-keV x-ray signal.

As one of the Milky Way’s closest and brightest galactic neighbors, residing only about 200,000 light-years from Earth, the ...

The recent lunar eclipse — the first total lunar eclipse since 2022 — was visible ... by Earth’s shadow. Clear night skies also revealed the striking section of the Milky Way that we can ...

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and ...