Jupiter is now well up in the east in the early evening, so we're now able to see the two brightest planets (Venus and ...

Stellar-mass black holes can be found anywhere in a galaxy, but the really big ones (known as supermassive black holes) are ...

A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.

The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

The LMC is a dwarf galaxy, relatively close to the Earth (in galactic terms) at around 160,000 light years away. That may ...

Fall is an incredible time for amateur astronomers to get out there and look at the night sky. Some of the most recognizable and bright objects that can be seen in the night sky make their ...

Welcome to Tusayan, Arizona – the little town with a big backyard. Tucked away in the rugged beauty of Arizona’s high country ...

ANSWER: Very big!! The Milky Way Galaxy is one of billions of galaxies in the known universe. The Milky Way is a spiral ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell, who is based in South Australia. He shared the image in a ...

They are also interested in studying the galaxy hosting the system ... s missions are part of an expanding global network ...