Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This "twin" of the Milky Way existed just 1 billion years after the ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often ... light-years of the Milky Way. The new radio image helps to put in context the inset infrared image by the James Webb Space Telescope from 2023 of ...

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core, appears to be ionised (meaning it is electrically charged because it has lost electrons ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as "the discovery machine of the decade." ...

The James Webb Space Telescope peers at Sagittarius C, a star-forming region about 200 light-years from the Milky Way's central black hole. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / S. Crowe "A big ...

more Researchers using data from the Hubble Space Telescope and ESA’s Gaia galaxy mapping mission now believe they have a solid picture of the mass of the Milky Way. As you no doubt would have ...

But because the LMC has just gotten past its closest approach to the Milky Way and is moving outward into deep space again ... surveyed the halo by using the background light of 28 bright quasars.

An image of the Milky Way captured by the MeerKAT radio telescope array puts the James Webb Space Telescope’s image of the Sagittarius C region in context. The MeerKAT image spans 1,000 light ...

Zamani (ESA/Hubble) The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 35th birthday this month - and to celebrate, it has released a stunning new image taken of a section of the Milky Way. Hubble has ...