That is why recent research led by Northwestern University in the United States has captured the attention of the ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observed the very outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Known as the Extreme Outer Galaxy, this region is located more than 58,000 light-years from the ...

Discover 8 breathtaking pictures captured by NASA, showing the beauty of stars and distant outer galaxies. These images ...

Discover the latest images of galaxies that highlight stunning stars, dust clouds, and magnificent cosmic formations across ...

Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than ...

The far outskirts of our galaxy are teeming with activity. Astronomers pointed the powerful James Webb Space Telescope at a distant zone dubbed the "Extreme Outer Galaxy," and zoomed in on dense ...

Astronomers searching for some of the universe’s first galaxies have uncovered a surprising case of mistaken identity.

Extreme Outer Galaxy in near- and mid-infrared light. Bright blue stars seen within this star-forming region, known as Digel Cloud 2S as seen by the JWST (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero galaxy with its MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), resolving the clumpy nature of the dust along the galaxy’s outer ring.

Calculating the costs of colonizing other planets remains elusive. In a report by the NASA Ames Research Center, the estimate ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest flash of radio waves ever seen and have tracked this fast radio burst ...