Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way. New research ... galaxies into intergalactic space and then back in to serve ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

"It marks an exciting step forward in our understanding of dark matter and the dynamics of the Milky Way." A perplexing ... interact with itself? Breaking space news, the latest updates on ...

This image presents a composite view of the Crab Nebula, a famous supernova remnant within the Milky Way galaxy. This image, captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope using its NIRCam ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Giant radio galaxies (GRGs) are massive, with plasma jets powered by supermassive black holes at their centers, stretching ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of detailed images of our vast galactic ...

Illustration of the European Space Agency's Gaia space observatory mapping the Milky Way. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab; background: ESO/S. Brunier Since its launch in 2013 and positioning at the Lagrange ...

After 11 years in solar orbit, the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has completed its mapping of our Milky Way Galaxy to a precision never before achieved. Surviving solar radiation and ...