If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars. But these sparkling lights are just a tiny fraction of our cosmic ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of public and scientists alike and, as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Iceland is bringing back Milky Way Crispy Rolls for one week from next Tuesday, it has been confirmed by the frozen food ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a flare from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way — and it could help explain why these strange outbursts occur..