The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster that stretches across 30,000 light-years and is located about 80,000 light-years from ...

But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...

The work has revealed that Andromeda is a lot more chaotic than expected. Similar to what recently retired Gaia did for the ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way.

The “ghost towns,” named Sculptor A, B, and C, consist of three faint and ultra-faint galaxies about 6.5 million light-years ...

From starry skies and urban sights to mysterious wilderness, noctourism is about discovering the magic of exploration by ...

Astronomy, always seeking the deepest mysteries of the cosmos, has taken a significant new step with the discovery of three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies. This breakthrough, the result of collaboration ...