Interest in steam world exoplanets really heated up in October 2024 when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered the ...

In the past decade, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has revealed the nature, history, and behavior of ...

U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...

Scientists have discovered a unique quadruple star system, UPM J1040−3551 AabBab, in the Milky Way, offering new insights into the elusive brown dwarfs.

Hertz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE-HI) survey, astronomers have discovered a new rotating galaxy filament. The newfound filament is about 5.5 million light years long and connects 14 ...

Hubble reveals star formation secrets in galaxy NGC 2835 using H-alpha detection to map stellar nurseries with surgical ...

Milky Way is expected to shine every night through August as it gets higher in a darker sky throughout the United States, ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Because it appears as a rotating disc curving out from a dense central region, the Milky Way is ...

Our planet sits along one of the galaxy’s spiral arms, about halfway from the center, according to NASA. The Milky Way sits in a cosmic neighborhood called the Local Group that includes more ...

New evidence suggests that a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way called Ursa Major III is actually a star cluster.

Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on Aug. 23. Head away from city lights in late August to see the dense core of the Milky ...