Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...

A galaxy that has remained unchanged for 7 billion years — a rarity in the universe — has been observed by astronomers, ...

Stars don't form out of nothing, but tracking the gas and dust that do eventually form stars is hard. They float around the ...

A massive, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of today's NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy ...

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s ...

Deep within the Milky Way’s core, researchers have uncovered cold gas clouds racing through a superheated galactic wind.

A new galaxy was found with 10,000 more of unseen mass than the Milky Way. Now, scientists are wondering if there are more of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

A colossal cluster of galaxies is bending the very fabric of space—and it’s the focus of this week’s breathtaking image from ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

Our Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than we've detected so far. They're just too faint to be seen.