The billions of stars making up the Milky Way, our home galaxy, should appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the ...

Using combined observations from ground-based telescopes over nearly four years, the researchers saw the distant galactic ...

The record-breaking galaxy is revealing secrets about the first stars and their unexpected chemical fingerprints.

While the Milky Way is technically visible year-round, certain times offer better viewing opportunities — especially for ...

Astronomers watched as a galaxy with the forgettable name SDSS1335+0728 suddenly sprang to life when its massive black hole ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's s MIRI and NIRCam instruments have captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 2090. The ...

The stately and inclined spiral galaxy NGC 3511 is the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy is ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like ...

Also known as the enigmatic "hidden galaxy," IC 342 is a big barred spiral with low surface brightness in the constellation ...

Astronomers have observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral galaxy in the early Universe and found that it has important similarities and differences with modern galaxies. This improves our ...