Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an international ...

Fireworks aren't the only thing illuminating the sky this month. July also presents the opportunity to catch a cosmic light show, when the Milky Way galaxy appears in the night sky. According to NASA, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but smaller than stars — beyond the Milky Way for the first time ever. When you ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged a star located outside the Milky Way galaxy. The subject, WOH G64, is a red supergiant situated roughly 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic ...

But the stellar halo, as this roughly ball-shaped, less dense grouping of stars is called, stretches the limits of the Milky ...

A mysterious, one-off flash of energy from an unknown object outside the Milky Way has left astronomers puzzled. The research team, led by Steven Dillmann of Stanford University was scouring ...

The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth. Reading time 2 minutes An astronaut recently captured an image of Earth from the ...

A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...

"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a picture, no one had ever noticed before? Now imagine doing that on a cosmic scale ...