Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) took a stunning image of the star cluster known as Westerlund 2, located in ...

From a window on the International Space Station, astronauts have captured a rare view of a nearby galaxy caught in the act ...

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The best time to view the Milky Way in the Northern Hemisphere is from March to September. The Milky Way, our home galaxy containing 100-400 billion stars, was bright and vibrantly visible from ...

The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show ...

It turns out that looming collision between our Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies might not happen after all. Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured views of the Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) molecular cloud with its NIRCam ...

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

Astronomers believe the two galaxies may collide in next 10 billion years Theory based on data from Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia star-tracking mission 'In short, the probability went from ...