Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way ... whose purpose is to map millions of stars ...

Hubble’s work opened the door to the study of the universe beyond our galaxy. In the century ... William Herschel used star counts to map out the Milky Way. He cataloged a thousand new nebulae ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals surprising details about Andromeda's satellite galaxies, offering fresh insights into ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals surprising details about Andromeda's satellite galaxies, offering fresh insights into ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting ...

to take the longest look yet at our galaxy's supermassive black hole — and it's frothing with unusual activity. Situated 26,000 light-years away in the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A* is ...

NASA is set to launch SPHEREx, a groundbreaking telescope that will create the most precise and colorful map of the universe.

Closer to home - relatively speaking - SPHEREx will look within our galaxy ... Milky Way, as it explores the origins of the universe and the galaxies within it. It will create a three-dimensional ...