The stunning spiral arms of the nearby galaxy Messier 81 are beautifully showcased by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. NASA's ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted and "weighed" a baby Milky Way-like galaxy lurking in the early universe, using ...

Stunning new photographs taken by Wellesley College astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have unveiled a newly ...

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 ...

This image of twin bubbles stretching 25,000 light-years from the galactic center was captured by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray ...

Brian Welch is in the Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA, and at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA.

Their study is published in the journal New Astronomy. Previous observations of high-velocity clouds within the galactic disk of the Milky Way show that HVCs comprise a fraction of a percent of ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a baby, Milky Way-like galaxy that formed more than 13 billion years ago. This "Firefly Sparkle" galaxy could reveal how our own galaxy evolved.