Stunning new photographs taken by Wellesley College astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have unveiled a newly ...

Extraordinary new images released by NASA have captured the formation of a galaxy similar in mass to our own Milky Way in its early stages of development. The James Webb Space Telescope has ...

“By examining these photos of the Firefly Sparkle, we can better understand how our own Milky Way took shape. ...There is so much going on inside this tiny galaxy, including so many different phases ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a photo of a spiral galaxy more than ... 26,000 light-years away from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and 13.4 billion light-years away from the oldest ...

youthful stars that have been observed zipping around the Milky Way's center at hypervelocities, the new study suggests. Moreover, because young stars are often accompanied by planets, this ...

Kartheik Iyer, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, was the co-author on the paper on Firefly Sparkle. It was discovered through an image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Astrophysicists are marveling at the latest celestial discovery made near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a baby, Milky Way-like galaxy that formed more than 13 billion years ago. This "Firefly Sparkle" galaxy could reveal how our own galaxy evolved.

Veiled in gas and clouds, the Milky Way’s center does not easily give up secrets. The initial detection of its supermassive black hole (SMBH) decades ago posed as many riddles as it solved ...

The discovery could lead to the finding of more planets. Astrophysicists are marveling at the latest celestial discovery made near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Scientists have ...