An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—nearly as massive ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the ...

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

An international team of astronomers on Thursday unveiled the first image of a supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy – a cosmic body known as Sagittarius A*.

A Welsh photographer whose images of the Northern Lights went viral said he wants to share a sense of wonder through his ...

Inside the bright but unassumingly named nebula Gum 55 lies a dark nebula - a rift of dust grains that absorb visible light - ...

"This is just 1% of the map, and yet it is full of a variety of sources that ... it features tens of millions of stars within the Milky Way and around 14 million distant galaxies beyond our ...

“Even the zoomed in images don’t show the full resolution of Euclid’s spectacular VIS camera. “Before Euclid, we would never be able to see the faint cirrus clouds in the Milky ...

The blood-like hue of the image is owed to a combination of mid-infrared light from Webb with visible and ultraviolet light ...

31, 2024 — For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula ... have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed.