In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

Webb Telescope captured stunning images of the Extreme Outer Galaxy. The findings show young star clusters, protostars, and ...

Thirteen billion years ago, the gas and dust particles that eventually became our Milky Way were whizzing around in every ...

The Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy, has been extensively studied by NASA. Infrared images illustrate polarized dust, while ...

Astronomers have examined the Extreme Outer Galaxy, also known as the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy, using the ...

The Milky Way appears to have a vast ripple spreading out across at least a quarter of its disc. If confirmed, the structure might be a relic from a brush with another galaxy, but not all ...

A famous example is the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' map, created in 1570, which features sea serpents and other sea monsters. Fast forward to today , and an unexplored Milky Way star cluster ...

An object spotted with help of citizen scientists was moving so fast through the Milky Way that it could escape the gravity of the galaxy and reach intergalactic space, new research has found.

A recent study suggests that our Milky Way galaxy could be much larger than previously thought, potentially overlapping with ...

NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the Milky Way’s ‘big brother ... Scientists are using DECam to construct the most extensive 3D map of the night sky ever made.

Webb's imagery has enabled scientists to better study star formation in the outer Milky Way. A team of NASA astronomers recently pointed the spacefaring telescope toward the outskirts of our own ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...