About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

They carefully pored over data on transit timings obtained by NASA's planet-hunting space telescope TESS, and archival observations from several ground-based telescopes. They also made new ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

With a speed of 9 km per second (33 000 km/h), this is the fastest jetstream of its kind ever measured in the Universe ...

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way.

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky Way on a cosmic "conveyor belt," before eventually returning to our galaxy ...

You’ll be able to view a rare alignment of planets this month and into February. Our astrotourism expert reveals the best ...

To put the wind speeds into perspective, the fastest winds ever observed in our solar system are on Neptune, at a speed of ...