This spectrograph map, generated from data collected by NASA's New Horizons probe, depicts the relatively uniform brightness ...

NASA's SPHEREx space observatory has spent the last six weeks undergoing checkouts, calibrations, and other activities to ensure it is working as it should. Now it's mapping the entire sky - not just ...

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.

The fracture is likely caused by a pulsar that smashed into G359.13 at a speed between one million and two million miles per ...

NASA’s SPHEREx telescope, launching on Feb 28 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, will map the entire sky ... This rare discovery showcases a galaxy similar in mass to the Milky Way during its early ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This "twin" of the Milky Way existed just 1 billion years after the ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan shared new insights into the motion of massive stars in a nearby galaxy that could completely ... As one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, about ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gearing up to unlock the deepest secrets of the universe with three ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

Nasa is tracking ... as it races through our galaxy at more than 177,000 km/h (110,000 mph). The immensely dense object is one of 30 known magnetars in the Milky Way, which are the dead remnants ...