Hubble has released a new image of Messier 30, known as M30, a globular cluster about 27,500 light-years away in the constellation Capricornus. NASA published the picture on Nov. 5 alongside a note ...

The Milky Way contains an enormous collection of stars, planetary systems, gas, and dust extending far beyond our familiar ...

Simulations suggest the faintest galaxies near the Milky Way share one iron level because a single giant first star exploded in each.

You've probably heard Star Trek characters throw around terms like "Gamma Quadrant" or "Beta Quadrant." Here's what to know ...

The Milky Way is home to hundreds of billions of stars arranged in a glorious spiral pattern. But beyond the obvious spiral, ...

A team of astronomers may have detected the gamma-ray signature produced when antimatter particles, or positrons, collide with electrons outside of the Milky Way for the first time. The findings, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered new clues about the gas surrounding the Milky Way's supermassive black hole ...

A figure in red trudges across a blanket of white. Snow squeaks under the scientist's feet, too dry to be slick or soft. Only ...

A Spanish-led team dated stars with Gaia and found the galactic disk formed in two stages, a puffy turbulent one and then a ...

The Milky Way's disc thinned in two stages at different rates. The precise age of the stars reveals the timing of this transition and how it is explained.

When you think of galaxies, you probably imagine them spinning around in a spiral. Our Milky Way galaxy, along with the solar ...

Gas and dust also fall directly into the clouds, along with streams of matter called cosmic filaments. Together, clouds and ...