The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a baby, Milky Way-like galaxy that formed more than 13 billion years ago. This "Firefly Sparkle" galaxy could reveal how our own galaxy evolved.

Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and destruction that shapes our galactic environment. Scientists may have unco ...

Canis Major Dwarf: Located in the located in the Canis Major constellation, this dwarf irregular galaxy is the closest to our Milky Way, located at an approximate distance of about 25,000 light ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a baby, Milky Way-like galaxy that formed more than 13 billion years ... "Most of the other galaxies Webb has shown us aren't magnified ...

NASA’s James Webb space telescope might be leading headlines, but other observations ... a new image of two galaxies merging, which teases the fate of the Milky Way. The galactic merger is ...

It proved the Andromeda Nebula is immensely distant from Earth, demonstrating that the Milky Way ... dwarf galaxy. However, the distances to the Magellanic Clouds are not much greater than the ...

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center ...