tucked away behind dense layers of gas and dust in our own Milky Way galaxy. The Smith Cloud, containing enough gas to fill one million suns, is expected to crash into the Milky Way—in about 27 ...

Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call ...

Now, the powerful space telescope has pushed it to the edge closer to home in our very own galaxy, the Milky Way. A team of ...

Astronomers have examined the Extreme Outer Galaxy, also known as the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy, using the ...

Webb Telescope captured stunning images of the Extreme Outer Galaxy. The findings show young star clusters, protostars, and ...

That’s almost half the distance to Andromeda. This illustration shows the Milky Way galaxy's inner and outer halos. A halo is a spherical cloud of ... [+] stars surrounding a galaxy. Astronomers ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal ... and two in particular (M33 and the Large Magellanic Cloud) may exert gravitational influences that deter such a collision. There are still too many unknowns ...

A gorgeous new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a bustling region of star formation at the distant edge of the ...

KW Sagittarii: It is one of the largest stars in the Milky Way, with a radius 100 times larger than the sun. It is located about 10,000 light-years from the sun. R136a1: It is a star in the Tarantula ...

Late August is a great time to observe the dazzling core of our galaxy, and with the upcoming ... Sullivan Astronomers suggest this cold, dense cloud compressed our sun's protective field between ...

Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call ...