The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.

Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

The Milky Way rotates counterclockwise ... is also the horizon of the visible universe," said Space.com (a sister site of The Week). In turn, "each and every black hole in our universe could ...

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and named after Portuguese explorer ...

The recent lunar eclipse — the first total lunar eclipse since 2022 — was visible ... by Earth’s shadow. Clear night skies also revealed the striking section of the Milky Way that we can ...