The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

The Andromeda galaxy, then known as the Andromeda nebula, is a bright spot in the ... could be enormous stellar systems outside the Milky Way – but astronomers now just call these systems ...

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image yet of the Antennae Galaxies. Hubble previously ...

Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can't. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather than ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive black hole outside of our galaxy. This segment airs on March 7, 2025. Audio ...

The image shows clouds of dust and gas located near the Tarantula Nebula, a place also renowned for its beauty. It is part of a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way called the Large Magellanic Cloud ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

The Milky Way Galaxy Nestled in the heart of Namibia, the NamibRand Nature Reserve offers an unparalleled view of the Milky ...