This image from ESO’s VISTA telescope captures a celestial landscape of vast ... This image shows the regions of the Milky Way mapped by the VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

The video, posted by amateur landscape photographer Jadon (@longfoxphoto ... revealing a star-filled sky with the Milky Way stretching across the horizon. A screenshot from a TikTok video ...

As one of the last remaining areas in South Wales with truly dark skies, Gower National Landscape will be protected from ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night. But the revelation of recent advances in digital photography is that ...

The total mass of the Milky Way is estimated to be only two hundred billion times that of the sun (2.06 x 10 11 solar masses), marking a significant downward revision—approximately four to five ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of interacting galaxies Arp 142 seems to sing in primary colors. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel ...