This image captures a richly detailed section of the Milky Way, showcasing a tapestry of stars and glowing nebulas. Against a ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope detect a faint smudge that may be the first galaxy, or a nearby impostor, named ...

Stellar migration may greatly increase the number of habitable planets in the Milky Way. Future ESA missions will test these predictions with detailed exoplanet observations. What can the Galactic Hab ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may have detected what could be the oldest galaxy ever observed, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has made an extraordinary discovery, spotting a galaxy forming some 13 billion years ago. This breakthrough provides invaluable insights into the universe’s earliest ...

Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data ...

Ursa Major III/Unions 1 (UMa3/U1), the faintest known satellite of our galaxy, orbits the Milky Way at a distance of more ...

NGC 3603-A1 is a pair of giant stars locked in a rapid 3.8-day orbit. Their dynamic relationship provides clues to how massive stars evolve and form black holes. A team of astronomers combined archiva ...