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

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

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

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.

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

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

A recent study suggests that our Milky Way galaxy could be much larger than previously thought, potentially overlapping with ...

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

The Love’s Planetarium, which opened Friday, is the only one of its caliber in North America. With its eight 4K projectors ...

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

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

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