Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar ...

Above is not a sky of black, but a luminous sea of whites, blues, greens, and tans. Here are a few things you might not know ...

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across, containing roughly 200 billion stars, and our solar system is located about 26,000 light-years from its center. It takes ...

Besides the telescope, SpaceX’s Falcon rocket provided a lift from Vandenberg for a quartet of NASA satellites called Punch.

Recently, over 20 passionate photographers from YL Camera and Sony set off on a three-day, two-night Milky Way photography ...

This HII region is seen to coexist with the reflection nebula, sharing the same stellar centre, and is created from the star ...

Scanning the sky with powerful radio telescopes will ... radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would pulse every two hours, like a cosmic heartbeat. The long radio blasts ...

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would ... focusing on the same patch of sky, she found six more ...