After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Telescope have discovered an "exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing away from the center of the Milky Way galaxy," according to the Chandra team.

They have refined the estimate of the black hole mass, ruling out the possibility of it being a neutron star. It is thought ...

JWST discovers Zhúlóng, the earliest Milky Way-like galaxy, 800 million years after the Big Bang explosion occurred.

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

In a nutshell Scientists have discovered Zhúlóng, a fully-formed spiral galaxy that existed just 1 billion years after the ...

The rotating disk galaxy, mostly made up of dark matter, was discovered within a larger cloud of fast-moving hydrogen gas.

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

Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...