The James Webb Space Telescope reveals turbulent environments found in Sagittarius C, a core part of our Milky Way galaxy.

Located about 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy home to active star formation. It is one of our Milky Way galaxy's closest neighbors alongside its ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms. The galaxy, NGC 5530, is located 40 million light-years from Earth in the ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

NASA and the European Space Agency released the photo on Monday. The outflow is about 625 light-years from Earth in one of the closest star-forming regions of our Milky Way galaxy, according to NASA.

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the narrator taking us both outward toward the fathomless end of the Universe ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will ... by just 1/60th of the Earth-sun distance, I quickly realized ...

Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky ... galaxy that encompasses Earth, such as where and how many galaxies there are that surround the Milky Way.

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by ... Some three times the size of our Milky Way, the galaxy lies nearly a billion years away from ...

Located around 200,000 light-years from Earth ... is a dwarf galaxy that, alongside its neighbor the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), is gravitationally bound to our Milky Way.

The star, which stands out due to its prominent diffraction spikes, is in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and is 7,109 light-years from Earth. The galaxy, on the other hand, is about 45 million ...