By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

A new study using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has helped to answer a continuous question in astronomy ...

The researchers observed the Sculptor Galaxy for over 50 hours with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument ...

While the Triangulum galaxy’s gravitational influence conspired to bring the Milky Way and Andromeda together, the LMC had a repellent effect. And when all four danced together, the odds of an ...

Gaia’s all-sky view of our Milky Way galaxy and neighboring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars in the mission’s first two years of taking data. ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

The Milky Way, on the other hand, probably hasn't had a run-in with another galaxy for 8 to 10 billion years. Andromeda's collision — and its more massive scale — could explain the galaxy's ...

No spacecraft can travel beyond our galaxy, so we cant take a selfie, but Gaia is giving us the best insight yet of what our home galaxy looks like. Once all of Gaias observations collected over the ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan ...

An artist’s animated tour of Porphyrion, the biggest set of cosmic jets yet discovered. The jets shoot out from opposite sides of a black hole at the heart of a massive galaxy 7.5 billion light ...