Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way ...

"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

There are millions of galaxies in the universe, and while astronomers have cataloged many, some remain relatively unknown to ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking photo of the Milky Way from the ISS, highlighting the stunning view of our ...

This stunning time-lapse video of the Milky Way was captured at the Florida Keys in Bahia Honda on Feb. 26. Our home galaxy ...

Hubble's study reveals Andromeda experienced major galactic collisions, unlike Milky Way. Its satellite galaxies show unusual ...

Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...

Unlike the typical blue-and-green depiction of Earth, this photo shows the planet in a mossy green hue, framed by a thin ...

This stunning photo was taken on January 29, 2025, from 265 miles (425 km) above the Pacific Ocean. Pettit, a seasoned ...

The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth.

"We are able to measure the local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time." ...