How galaxies assemble their stars and grow over billions of years remains one of the central questions in astronomy. Recent ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

American space agency NASA announced the first major science program for the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, aside from the ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...

A new study led by Dr. Vivian Tan, who recently completed her Ph.D. at York University under the supervision of Prof. Adam ...

Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an international ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ground-based observations at this wavelength." Astronomers have used the ...

“Observing the Galaxy is like standing in the middle of a brightly lit city at night. If you look toward the outskirts, the view is clearer – you can make out individual streets, scattered houses, and ...

For those in midlatitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, the arc of our galaxy becomes easier to see in May. Here's when and where to look. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

James Webb Space Telescope reveals thick cosmic dust of Sagittarius B2, the most enormous star-forming cloud in the Milky Way — Space photo of the week Unprecedented view of the Milky Way took 40,000 ...