VIRCAM managed to peer through the dust and gas that permeates our galaxy — it was therefore able to see the radiation from the Milky Way's usually hidden locations and painting a quite complete ...

At the heart of this cosmic revelation lies Palomar 5, a stellar stream stretching across 30,000 light-years of space.

Tate Modern, London, has acquired Milŋiyawuy, a series of meticulous black and white paintings on bark, by senior Yolŋu ...

This summer, a dead star in a nearby galaxy flared back to life in an abnormally brilliant but brief nova, providing astronomers a fleeting glimpse of a mysterious class of stellar duo.

The inside-out growth of this ancient galaxy could teach us something about the history of our own Milky Way and how it ...

Scientists from the SAGA Survey have studied 101 Milky Way-mass galaxies, revealing that our galaxy may have fewer satellite ...

TALENTED photographers have shared more beautiful images of what has been described as ‘the comet of the century’.

The "first page" of an incredible cosmic atlas being built by the Euclid Space Telescope has been released. The millions of ...

GLEN HAVEN, MI - Just steps from Sleeping Bear Bay, the sign outside of the big white house promises tourist rooms and ...

Once blocked from view, the most massive young star cluster in the Milky Way has finally been revealed by the James Webb ...

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...

At the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, 13,000 feet above sea level on the Sierra Negra volcano of Mexico, ...