The photo tour operator Capture the Atlas has announced the winners for the seventh iteration of its Milky Way ...

The new study suggests that miniture solar systems would not necessarily look like our own. This composite of planets in our solar system was taken by various NASA spacecraft. Included in the ...

NASA has dubbed the large spiral galaxy the Milky Way’s ‘big brother’. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. With spiral ...

Astronomers will soon begin a search of 2,800 galaxies for signs of advanced alien civilizations using a radio telescope in ...

Edward Emerson Barnard's Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way was originally published in two volumes ... "One of the greatest astronomy books of all time is back - and it's better ...

Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope may reveal a secret merger in our supermassive black hole's past, potentially ...

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

NASA's Webb Peers Into the Extreme Outer Galaxy Sep. 12, 2024 — Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this ...

Nicknamed Porphyrion after a giant in Greek mythology, the jet megastructure dates to a time when the universe was 6.3 ...

Astronomy is the study of celestial objects and phenomena, and Indigenous astronomy refers to deep knowledge of the stars and ...

That's equivalent to lining up 140 Milky Way galaxies back to back. Using a new method exploiting the capabilities of the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE), astronomers have detected 307 ...