"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields affect star formation at the chaotic center of the Milky Way.

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

open image in gallery A group of researchers say they’ve found mysterious ‘space tornadoes’ in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. They used the largest astronomical project in existence to ...

which helped them pinpoint the edge of our galaxy, at about 950,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way. “In many analyses of the Milky Way halo, its outer boundary is a fundamental ...

An image of Zhúlóng the ... 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 ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often ... super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT radio telescope shows our home galaxy in a completely new way.