After 47 years and 15 billion miles, the Plasma Science Experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has been turned off.

Once upon a time, camera shutter buttons on Android phones were commonplace. But, as time went on, manufacturers discovered ...

It's hard to imagine that someday, the Milky Way galaxy will cease to exist. Looking up at the stars, it feels as though ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

For the first time, the James Webb Telescope may have identified brown dwarfs outside the Milky Way, providing new insights.

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...

The game, played inside a realistic recreation of all 400 billion star systems in our Milky Way galaxy, has changed a lot over the years. But on Wednesday, during a scheduled developer livestream ...

Oct. 31, 2024 — For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful ...

It was a stunning insight into the swirling mass that sits at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy. ALSO READ: Sunita Williams stuck in space: Why NASA is not in a hurry to bring her back? The image ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what they believe is the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way galaxy.

“Seeing a galaxy with such similarities to our own Milky Way... challenges our understanding of how quickly galaxies in the early Universe evolve,” noted Lucie Rowland, the study's lead author ...