Plenty of video games take us to outer space, but only the best space RPGs let you chart your own odyssey through the stars. There are loads of space games out there these days spanning all kinds ...

Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine select star-forming areas in the Extreme Outer Galaxy in near- and mid-infrared light. Within this star-forming region, known as ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

The stunning image that Webb produced shows newly-formed stars in the outer galaxy emitting jets of material in all directions, set against a backdrop of a sea of galaxies and red clouds of gas ...

A gorgeous new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a bustling region of star formation at the distant edge of the Milky Way. Called, dramatically enough, the Extreme Outer Galaxy, this ...

Astronomers have a long tradition of finding holiday cheer in outer space. This image of the Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster was made with data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble ...

The James Webb Space Telescope can see distant galaxies and objects within our own Milky Way. Its primary focus has recently shifted to the extreme outer regions of our galaxy, according to Space.com.

The "Extreme Outer Galaxy" is located over 58,000 light-years (a light-year is almost 6 trillion miles) from the center of our galaxy. Earth , meanwhile, is some 26,000 light-years from the center.

Containing an inner and outer layer, the Milky Way’s halo is vastly larger than the galaxy’s main disk and the central bulge that are teeming with stars. The galaxy, with a supermassive black ...

Unlike the Sun, these newfound stars do not reside in the Milky Way’s familiar thin disk, which is about 100,000 light-years across and home to most of our galaxy’s young stars.

Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way’s stellar halo. The most distant of these stars is more than a million light years from Earth, ...

A gorgeous new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a bustling region of star formation at the distant edge of the Milky Way. Called, dramatically enough, the Extreme Outer Galaxy, this ...