Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24.

The structure, named the Midpoint cloud, is an example of a Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC). It was discovered by the team using ...

The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

The Milky Way is not just a band of stars stretching across the night sky; it's a massive, dynamic galaxy spanning over 200,000 light-years and containing hundreds of billions of stars, planets, and ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

Though it appears as a softly glowing cloud against the darker sky, what we see is so much more remarkable. This is the rim of our galaxy’s disk arching across the sky. Its hazy appearance, of course, ...

The Fermi bubbles were discovered in 2010 by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The two orbs form an hourglass structure ...

For centuries, humanity believed that Earth was the center of the universe, a view championed by Aristotle and Ptolemy. But with Galileo's groundbreaking observations in the 1600s, the idea of a ...