New research led by Dr. James De Buizer at the SETI Institute and Dr. Wanggi Lim at IPAC at Caltech revealed surprising results about the rate at which high-mass stars form in the galactic center of ...

The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

The team behind the Rubin Observatory just couldn't resist waiting until morning to share the first pictures from the world's ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

Astronomers have created a galactic masterpiece: an ultra-detailed image that reveals previously unseen features in the ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Because it appears as a rotating disc curving out from a dense central region, the Milky Way is ...

Could a rogue star disrupt our peaceful solar system? Scientists are keeping a close eye on the galactic neighborhood, and ...

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes. But astronomers recently spotted a mysteriously circular orb deep in the ...