The photo tour operator Capture the Atlas has announced the winners for the seventh iteration of its Milky Way ...

NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the Milky Way’s ‘big brother’. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. With spiral ...

The new study suggests that miniture solar systems would not necessarily look like our own. This composite of planets in our solar system was taken by various NASA spacecraft. Included in the ...

Astronomers will soon begin a search of 2,800 galaxies for signs of advanced alien civilizations using a radio telescope in ...

Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope may reveal a secret merger in our supermassive black hole's past, potentially ...

The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy may already be colliding after it was discovered that galaxies may have gas halos far ...

NASA's Webb Peers Into the Extreme Outer Galaxy Sep. 12, 2024 — Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this ...

Astronomy is the study of celestial objects and phenomena, and Indigenous astronomy refers to deep knowledge of the stars and ...

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 ...

Astronomers discover record-breaking black hole jets spanning 140 Milky Ways. This groundbreaking observation provides ...

Supermassive black holes, celestial objects with masses greater than a million times that of the Sun, remain one of the ...