On New Year’s Day, 1925 attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of ...

working to reveal our Galaxy’s present-day structure and unravel its evolutionary history. The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission to map the position and motion of around 1.8 billion stars has ...

The fountains will dance to music with interactive lighting and water reaching ... degrees “making you feel like you’re caught within the Milky Way, riding on constellations through the galaxy.” It’s ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way.

Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and destruction that shapes our galactic environment. Scientists may have unco ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...

Using the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), astronomers from Italy and Germany have observed a group of galaxies designated NGC ...

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...