The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell, who is based in South Australia. He shared the image in a ...

The goal was to create the most detailed and accurate map of the Milky Way ever. After taking images of the night sky for 13 years ... from dense clusters of old stars to relative newborns ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times ...

Once blocked from view, the most massive young star cluster in the Milky Way has finally been revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Social media users were captivated by the incredible view in the viral clip, with one saying: "My jaw has never dropped so fast." ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

When you gaze up at the night sky, there's a soft ... revealed a breathtaking fact: the Milky Way's radiance is a result of ...

"We are getting closer to unlocking the secrets of how stars and planets formed in the harsh conditions of the early universe." At this point, astronomers are used to the James Webb Space ...

Even when the Milky Way and Andromeda collide, the chances of stars colliding are almost zero. In about four billion years—when Andromeda is a large, bright object in our night sky—the sun ...

The Milky Way’s stars have a wide variety of ages, sizes, and abundances of metals (elements heavier than hydrogen or helium). Stars that are born together tend to share many properties ...