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

A new study suggests that our Milky Way galaxy and its neighboring Andromeda galaxy are already interacting, long before ...

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

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

A team of NASA astronomers recently pointed the spacefaring telescope toward the outskirts of our own Milky Way galaxy to get a glimpse of some dense cosmic clouds home to star clusters undergoing ...

Among the Milky Way’s outskirts is a firecracker show of star formation. How do environmental factors affect the star ...

Dubbed 'Porphyrion' after a mythological Greek giant, this immense structure originated when the universe was just 6.3 ...

NASA's Webb Peers Into the Extreme Outer Galaxy ... our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than 58,000 ... Magnetic Field Maps of ...

However, unlike most spiral galaxies, M33 lacks a central bulge, which would otherwise house a supermassive black hole. As a ...

Astronomers have discovered twin black hole jets that span a distance greater than 140 Milky Way galaxies long, the biggest jets found yet.

Galaxies are much bigger than we originally thought, extending far out into deep space — so far that the Milky Way likely interacts with our closest neighbor ...

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