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

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

Over the last week, we’ve been entertained by a pre-Halloween visitor from the depths of our solar system. It’s Comet ...

Carbon dioxide’s role in warming early exoplanetary atmospheres is likely necessary to create a habitable zone. But it could ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what ...

The Milky Way might belong to a much larger cosmic structure. New research connects the galaxy to the Shapley Concentration.

It takes the Earth one year to orbit all the way around the sun. But the sun’s path around the Milky Way is much bigger. It ...

Astronomers hypothesize that a long-ago dwarf galaxy dubbed Loki may have merged with the Milky Way when our galaxy was in ...

Microquasars within the Milky Way, like V4641 Sagittarii, have been discovered to emit photons with energy levels previously ...

The dung beetle's galactic guidance system is launching a new era in navigation technology, proving that sometimes the best ...

The comet, visible to the naked eye, was captured in stunning detail against the backdrop of the Milky Way galaxy, with the ...