The Andromeda Galaxy (M31, NGC 224) is a truly stunning and colossal presence in our universe, located 2.5 million light years away in the Andromeda constellation. This supergiant spiral galaxy, often ...

Milky Way may be visible on July Fourth weekend across the U.S.: How to see our galaxy The center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way is composed of billions of stars that are expected to be bright ...

NGC 4449 is a dwarf galaxy, which means that it is far smaller and contains fewer stars than the Milky Way. But don't let its small size fool you; NGC 4449 packs a punch when it comes to making stars.

When Is the Best Time to See the Milky Way? You can technically see a portion of the Milky Way all year, but you can’t always admire the photogenic core.

Her talk, titled “The Milky Way’s Baby Book,” dives into the history of our home galaxy and how scientists are using new data and technology to unravel its earliest years—like flipping ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but smaller than stars — beyond the Milky Way for the first time ever.

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge computing. Scientists have used a powerful neural network trained with ...

From Earth's perspective, NGC 253 looks like the edge of a silver coin. ESO “In the Milky Way, we can achieve extremely high resolution, but we lack a global view since we’re inside it.