This week, the James Webb Space Telescope zooms in on the iconic Sombrero Galaxy, revealing the first-ever mid-infrared ...

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.

"What in the Milky Way caused these small, lower-mass satellites to have their star formation quenched?" The findings suggest our galaxy's evolutionary history is strikingly different, setting it ...

Edwin Hubble's revelation in 1924 that the Andromeda Nebula was, in fact, an 'island universe,' was a pivotal moment in our ...

Astronomers have long used the Milky Way as a benchmark for studying galaxy formation and evolution, assuming that its ...

WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel. Through this ...

On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The Milky Way is a vast galaxy, and while it may be our home, scientists are still ...

The star is located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. Known as WOH ... taking close-up pictures of the star in the future will ...

Astronomers have captured the first zoomed-in image of a star beyond the Milky Way. The historic image reveals a dying ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists captured the first-ever close-up picture of a star outside of the Milky Way galaxy, ushering in a new era of cosmic study. The European Southern Observatory (ESO ...

Located a staggering 160,000 light-years from us, the star WOH G64 was imaged thanks to the impressive sharpness offered by ...