"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded icy objects" thousands of light years from Earth. Takashi Shimonishi, ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

Astronomers discover two new supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud, providing insights into stellar explosions and their role in shaping galaxy evolution.

NGC 7023, also known as the Iris Nebula, is a reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus. It's a bright nebula that's visible in the northern sky.

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered "signs of a ‘hot spot’ ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.

The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the ... The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...