"Guardians of the Galaxy" is definitely an amazing movie. The fact that Marvel expanded its movie series to the far reaches ...

Say the words “science fiction,” and most people immediately think of outer space. It’s ironic, then, that so few sci-fi ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observed the very outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Known as the Extreme Outer Galaxy, this region is located more than 58,000 light-years from the ...

The far outskirts of our galaxy are teeming with activity. Astronomers pointed the powerful James Webb Space Telescope at a distant zone dubbed the "Extreme Outer Galaxy," and zoomed in on dense ...

A new map reveals the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, including a wave of stars disturbed by a small galaxy on a collision course with our own. Data collected from the European Space Agency’s ...

Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than ...

No matter how many galaxy images the Hubble Space Telescope procures, there really is no diminishing return. And there's something about the observatory's latest muse, a realm known as NGC 6951 ...

This illustration shows the Milky Way galaxy's inner and outer halos. A halo is a spherical cloud of stars surrounding a galaxy. NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) ...

You can also see a whisper of stars surrounding the imaged galaxy as a faint, spherical cloud known as the halo. Our own Milky Way boasts two distinct inner and outer halos; stars found in the ...

A new map reveals the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, including a wave of stars disturbed by a small galaxy on a collision course with our own. Data collected from the European Space Agency’s ...