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

A "hauntingly beautiful" photograph of the Milky Way above the ruins of a Tudor mansion has won top prize in the South Downs National Park astrophotography competition. The image was taken by ...

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.

Veiled in gas and clouds, the Milky Way’s center does not easily give up secrets. The initial detection of its supermassive black hole (SMBH) decades ago posed as many riddles as it solved ...

The universe is filled with galaxies, including our own Milky Way. When pictured ... to a paper that was published in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

But around the cosmic time that we are seeing the Firefly Sparkle, Milky Way-like galaxy progenitors were about 10,000 times less massive than today’s Milky Way. Hopefully with the collaboration ...