The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured and amazing view of the Sombrero Galaxy (Messier 104). The galaxy is ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have captured amazing views of spiral galaxy NGC 2566. Credit: ...

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

Our planet sits along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms, about halfway from the center, according to NASA. The Milky Way sits in a cosmic neighborhood called the Local Group that includes more ...

Milky Way may be visible on July Fourth weekend across the U.S.: How to see our galaxy The center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way is composed of billions of stars that are expected to be bright ...

The galaxy next door to the Milky Way, Andromeda, has never looked as stunning as it does in a new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope.

Disk galaxies, like our own Milky Way galaxy, commonly consist of both a thick and thin disk of stars—each with different features, including stellar population and movement. Three major ...

Witness the breathtaking beauty of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, through 6 stunning images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

The anatomy of the Milky Way Galaxy. Credit: Left: NASA/JPL-Caltech; right: ESA; layout: ESA/ATG medialab. Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky ...

In an image the observatory refers to as "the cosmic treasure chest," a southern region of the Virgo Cluster about 55 million light-years from Earth comes to life in our own Milky Way galaxy.