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

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.

Astronomers uncover a young galaxy similar to the Milky Way, shedding light on its early formation just 600 million years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), published Tuesday in ...

Stunning new photographs taken by Wellesley College astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have unveiled a newly ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Chris Willott (National Research Council Canada), Lamiya Mowla (Wellesley College), Kartheik Iyer (Columbia University) For the first time, astronomers have spotted and ...

NEW YORK — Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Nearly every large galaxy has a ...

“There is so much going on inside this tiny galaxy, including so many different phases of star formation.” The research team ... The fully formed Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across ...