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 ...

Astronaut Don Pettit shared a Milky Way photo from the ISS showing stars, a red airglow band, and colourful light streaks ...

Astronomers have determined that VVV CL001, a metal-poor globular cluster near the center of the Milky Way, is about 13.4 ...

The new data released by the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has revealed the surprise phenomena of ‘starquakes’—massive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From this vantage point looking at the Milky Way from its edge, the galactic bulge might appear as a glowing orb of stars, with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Artemis 2 crew captured this majestic photo of the Milky Way through the window of their Orion spacecraft "Integrity" on April ...

Around a dead star in the Milky Way, astronomers suspect a Jupiter-like world formed from stellar ashes and is possibly ...

Most of the stars in our Milky Way galaxy sit neatly on a flat plane. But the space around our galaxy is much more chaotic. Rogue bands of stars called "stellar streams" orbit the Milky Way much like ...

A new James Webb Space Telescope study finds that Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole, constantly emits light from its swirling accretion disk. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford ...

Newswise — Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, grew to its current size in part by consuming smaller galaxies. Now, new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy ...

Our home galaxy has a secret buried inside. A new study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests that the Milky Way swallowed an ancient dwarf galaxy billions of ...

From this vantage point looking at the Milky Way from its edge, the galactic bulge might appear as a glowing orb of stars, with the spiral arms and their dust clouds forming a narrow band. Credit: ESO ...