A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments ...

The galaxy could be an example of a hypothetical "dark galaxy" that astronomers have been searching for for decades.

Billions of stars fill our galaxy that become visible at certain times of year. And in the U.S., that time, known as "Milky Way season," is beginning.

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning spiral galaxy 65 million light-years away, revealing glowing dust clouds and stellar nurseries.

An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the aftermath of what some call "galactic cannibalism:" the aftermath of a 100 million-year-old cosmic collision ...

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.

The galaxy NGC 941 was imaged by the Subaru Telescope at the summit of Maunakea, Hawai'i. Using the Subaru Telescope located at the summit of the extinct volcano Maunkea in Hawai'i, astronomers have ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the most distant “jellyfish galaxy” ever seen — a cosmic oddity streaming long, tentacle-like trails of gas and newborn stars as it speeds ...

Bode’s Big Night. On December 31, 1774, Johann E. Bode discovered both M81 and M82. In 1779, Pierre Mechain independently ...

Grillmair persevered, however, and soon made the “monumental” discovery of detecting signs of water on another planet, IPAC ...

Several discoveries have emerged from the commissioning phase of the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, serving as an ...