When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...