Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

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

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

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 ...

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 that our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is larger than should ... of thousands of views, but is it real? At 40 light years away from Earth, TRAPPIST-1's four Goldilocks ...

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.

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.

Scientists say they’ve found “space tornadoes” swirling in the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. While the galaxy’s centre, including the supermassive black hole Sgr A*, is known to be ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come ... found that a massive spiral galaxy almost 1 billion light-years away from Earth harbors a supermassive black hole ...