One of the most spectacular galaxies in Earth's sky is the subject of a new image release to help celebrate 35 years of ...

See the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the Milky Way galaxy in this time-lapse view from the International Space Station.

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

The Milky Way may have a twin. The discovery of the most distant spiral galaxy to date may change the way we think about both ...

ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At ...

The James Webb Space Telescope peers at Sagittarius C, a star-forming region about 200 light-years from the Milky Way's central black ... "both in our galaxy and beyond." ...

The JWST's image of the Big Wheel galaxy, a massive rotating disk 11. ... It's five times more massive than the Milky Way, for context, stretches across 100,000 light-years. More specifically ...

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, SARAO, Samuel Crowe (UVA), John Bally (CU), Ruben Fedriani (IAA-CSIC), Ian Heywood (Oxford) Deep in the heart of the Milky Way lies a bustling region near to the galaxy’s ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 light-years from the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

Launched into space over a decade ago, Gaia has been instrumental in charting the Milky Way galaxy, revealing its past and estimating its future. Gaia was launched in December 2013 aiming to create ...