The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

Led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara, the team has discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way ... whereas most light blue arrows show movement ...

Scientists have found evidence for a cosmic collision in the Perseus cluster, a group of thousands of galaxies not far from ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into galaxies that existed at cosmic noon to hunt ravenously ...

The Milky Way is our home ... NASA's Chandra X-Ray observatory (blue) and infrared from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (dark red). The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying ...

A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star formation and black hole growth at "cosmic noon"—a mysterious epoch 2–3 ...

The Multiverse is a great place to visit with strange worlds and alien empires spread across its vastness. Let’s look at the ...

In honor of Star Wars Day, "Revenge of the Sith" at 20, and a new season of "Andor," we're ranking the 75 best live-action ...

I got to see the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) through a 36-inch at the ... There’s nothing quite like gazing up at a broad, gauzy Milky Way, catching a shooting star every few hours, and enjoying ...

This swirl of stars may be similar to our own Milky Way galaxy, with a diameter ... presence of ionized sulfur, the blue is ionized iron, the yellow and green areas are dust, and the white parts ...

On this May the Fourth, stories of supernatural forces and unidentified phenomena in Butte County and the surrounding area ...