Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it continues to contribute to astronomy. As Gaia Mission Manager Uwe Lammers put ...

more Researchers using data from the Hubble Space Telescope and ESA’s Gaia galaxy mapping mission now believe they have a solid picture of the mass of the Milky Way. As you no doubt would have ...

Astronomers have discovered "space tornadoes" raging through the heart of the Milky Way in the vicinity of our galaxy's central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). The discovery ...

Space, to the naked eye, appears still ... ALMA’s amazingly high resolution has sharpened the view of the tempestuous churn in Milky Way’s central zone. This area, surrounding the supermassive black ...

But because the LMC has just gotten past its closest approach to the Milky Way and is moving outward into deep space again ... surveyed the halo by using the background light of 28 bright quasars.

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully ... A brand new study based on Hubble Space Telescope ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on. After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often ... light-years of the Milky Way. The new radio image helps to put in context the inset infrared image by the James Webb Space Telescope from 2023 of ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone ... a surprising new filamentary structure in this mysterious region of space. Although the galaxy's central molecular zone (CMZ) has long been ...