The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside our galaxy.

The Milky Way keeps its planets close to its chest. Stars in a thin, flat disk bisecting the galaxy have more planets on average than stars in a thicker, enveloping disk — and astronomers now ...

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy, but his work really stood on the shoulders of a number of people," said Jeff Rich, an astronomer at ...

Surprising discovery: NASA reveals a planet is disintegrating in an unprecedented way The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for ... the largest galaxy in our cosmic ...

Galaxies may be anchored to giant "dark stars" — clumps of invisible matter sitting at their cores, new research suggests. Although astronomers have an abundance of evidence that most of the mass in ...

Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed ...

New research suggests that most ... part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt," before eventually returning to our galaxy. When you purchase through links ...

It’s beautiful but also a reminder of the ultimate fate that awaits our own Milky Way galaxy. The image was captured using the NOIRLabs’ International Gemini Observatory. NOIRLabs says that ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic collision. NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy ...