Animals with ultraviolet color patterns can be found all over nature. Here’s what we know about what purpose these patterns ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

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

However, not all spiral galaxies are created equal, as two recent images from the Hubble Space Telescope show. The image above shows galaxy NGC 3596, a neat and orderly spiral galaxy. And the image ...

See the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the Milky Way galaxy in this time-lapse view from the International Space Station.

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

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 ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

In a video sent to Philstar.com, scientists explain how they were able to shoot cookies into the Milky Way. To mark the event ... a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, and a space-themed trip to Tokyo ...

Cosmic noon is a mysterious period of the universe's evolution, around 2 billion to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, when galaxies like the Milky Way were ... the MIRI EGS Galaxy and AGN ...

"In theory, a galaxy could show up in one image and not another because we're using different filters," Backhaus said. "It's like taking pictures using only red, blue or green light ... could be the ...