The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell, who is based in South Australia. He shared the image in a ...

Astrophysicists have reconstructed the movement of stars within globular clusters to understand their evolution and origin.

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

The Milky Way, now majestic with its spiral arms, has not always looked this way. It evolved over billions of years, merging with other galaxies, thereby increasing its size and complexity. This ...

It is an elliptical galaxy, meaning that it is roughly oval-shaped and lacks recognizable features like the spiral arms and dense central bar of stars common to galaxies like the Milky Way.

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

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

The spiral arms of nearby galaxy Messier 81 is captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This galaxy is easily visible ...

Oct. 31, 2024 — For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful ...

Researchers develop beetle-inspired robots with neural controls to roll objects, boosting multitasking across diverse ...

But let's start with the ones we can see easily. Two of Milky Way's prominent satellite galaxies are the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud. They orbit the Milky Way at a ...