Using deep imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, they observed a galaxy bearing a striking resemblance to our ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

The subatomic particles are incredibly numerous. About 1,000 neutrinos from stars other than the sun pass through a thumbnail every second.

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

From a window on the International Space Station, astronauts have captured a rare view of a nearby galaxy caught in the act ...

March 25: “Hurrah, and vote for suffrage! Don’t keep them in doubt.” —Febb Burn, a 47-year-old widow, in a letter to her son, ...