A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a "bridge" of dust and gas forming a cosmic smiley face.

The Orion arm of the Milky Way we reside in is a thousand light years thick from bottom to top, and almost a hundred thousand light ... The most distant galaxies are often also the oldest, so the ...

Stars, on the other hand, have more concentrated light, and there we can see color — even with the naked eye ... one of the ...

This was one of the more difficult images I have processed of the Milky Way. This summer season in Yellowstone I had planned ...

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

"In the case of Digel Cloud 2, I did not expect to see such active star formation and spectacular jets," Izumi added. The ...

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

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

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call ...

The Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy, has been extensively studied by NASA. Infrared images illustrate polarized dust, while X-ray data unveil giant bubble structures and superheated gas.

This is the sixth and final column in a series of guest opinions commemorating the Craters of the Moon National Monument ...