The Milky Way's interstellar medium—that is, the dust and gas that threads between our galaxy's billions of stars—is an abundant yet elusive material. That means the latest image from NASA's ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new details of the Cartwheel Galaxy, uncovering insights into star formation and its central black hole. This vibrant portrait of our Milky Way ...

Without Andromeda as a proxy for spiral galaxies in the universe at large, astronomers would know much less about the structure and evolution of the Milky Way, according to the Space Telescope Science ...

The Bullseye galaxy is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings ... where the bird breaks the surface. The Hubble Space Telescope is helping scientists unravel the ...

The Godzilla Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Sagittarius that was imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission ...

NASA's Hubble Telescope recently captured this wondrdul view of galaxy- IC 3225, located about 100 million light-years from Earth and is a member of the Virgo Cluster. NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift ...