Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

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 ...

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 ...

As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the Ring, “Not all those who wander are lost.” But in the case of planets, it’s possible that most of them are.

The fast-moving gas cloud could help explain the so-called missing satellite problem, if the object is what scientists think ...

Five questions with Christopher Holt, touring guitarist for the best-selling American rock band, talks about his new album, ...

Unlike the James Webb Space Telescope that's also orbiting in L2, which produces illustrious pictures ... of the Milky Way, providing the clearest reconstructed view of how our galaxy might ...

In a serendipitous cosmic discovery, astronomers have found a colossal galaxy that looks just like our own Milky Way – except ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest galactic neighbors, which is full of bright, colorful stars. Located about 200,000 light-years from Earth, the ...

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

Rather, it's an old photo from the Hubble ... a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way galaxy that sits about 199,000 light-years from Earth. Last year, researchers made a startling discovery ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found the most distant (and thus the earliest) massive "dead" galaxy to date ... around the Milky Way. That's expected because ...