How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy ...

A sideways spiral galaxy shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. Located about 60 million light-years away in ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the ...

In Part 2 of his story, Benita Albert tells of astronomer Bob Benjamin's career, including teaching and now being a NASA consultant.

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope will soon map our Milky Way galaxy in infrared. This mission will reveal billions of stars and ...

A new study led by Dr. Vivian Tan, who recently completed her Ph.D. at York University under the supervision of Prof. Adam ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

Comet Lemmon was discovered in January 2025 and made its closest approach to Earth in late October 2025. But by November 2025 ...