Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are ...

"What in the Milky Way caused these small, lower-mass satellites to have their star formation quenched?" The findings suggest our galaxy's evolutionary history is strikingly different, setting it ...

A Wellesley College-led team of astronomers have discovered a new galaxy that is forming. And it looks a lot like our galaxy, the Milky Way. "The extraordinary images—taken with NASA’s James Webb ...

With this definition, the outer boundary of the Milky Way would go out much further than previously understood. In fact, the ...

New images show a galaxy forming that is similar to what our Milky Way’s mass might have been at the same stage of development. Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed ...

This image released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, May 12, 2022, shows a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A*, near the ...

NEW YORK — (AP) — Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Nearly every large ...

Firefly Sparkle Galaxy Offers a Taste of the Infant Milky Way By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe ...

The galaxy is estimated to have formed 100-400 million years before its evolutionary stage that was observed by Webb, the most capable space telescope ever deployed. "The Milky Way began forming ...