Astronomers studying the early universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found what seems to be a time traveler from the future: a large galaxy so chock-full of dust that the light ...

The Milky Way galaxy grew into its current form with the help of smaller galaxies over time, which it has "consumed" or ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals a super-Earth, GJ 887 d, located just 10.7 light-years away, potentially capable of ...

For the first time, an international team of astronomers has identified a clear boundary of the Milky Way’s star-forming disk ...

Jake Kurlander is a graduate student at the UW school of astronomy who, along with UW research scientist Ari Heinze, built ...

In the paper from 2024, the team looked at long-period objects that crossed the path of Neptune's orbit, finding that their ...

The Milky Way is at least 100,000 light-years across, but the new results suggest that the galaxy's star formation takes ...

In this new image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a spiral galaxy glittering with star clusters is the center of ...

This year, the month of May will begin and end with a full moon, making it the only month of 2026 to do so.

“I got home, I was going to post it, and then towards the end of the video I saw the green come out—I said, what was that?” ...

Scientists have mapped the extent of the Vela Supercluster for the first time, and determined that it is one of the largest ...

Astronomers may have finally put a number on one of our galaxy’s slipperiest questions: where the Milky Way’s physical boundary really ends.