The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.

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

The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth. Our solar system takes about 240 million years to orbit the Milky Way just once ...

From the Andromeda Galaxy to the Magellanic clouds, check out these 7 vibrant images of galaxies nearest to the Milky Way ...

Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy that existed about 600 million years after the Big Bang ...

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Telescope have discovered an "exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing away from the center of the Milky Way galaxy," according to the Chandra team.

On York Boulevard in Los Angeles, a blurred black hole hangs on a dark wall, joined only by a pair of headphones playing ...

This stunning image of V838 Mon, is located about 20,000 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, placing the star at the outer edge of our Milky Way galaxy. The ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million ...

Dec. 18, 2024 — Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of the universe -- are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars. However, it is still ...

But the state-of-the-art space observatory has recently imaged two grand design spiral galaxies, and one appears to be the ...