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

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

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, ...

Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can't. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather than light, we end up seeing a lot of circles.

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 ...

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

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

Yet somehow, this tiny galaxy survived without being fried. "These are fully functional galaxies, but they're about a millionth of the size of the Milky Way," team member and University of ...