High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the dynamic process of carbon-rich dust formation around Wolf ...

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Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* Supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy - Milky ...

In the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, such as the Andromeda Galaxy, astronomers can observe stars one by one. But for galaxies billions of light-years away, the stars appear blended together due to ...

There will be opportunity to work with data from ESA’s Gaia mission and high-resolution numerical simulations of the Milky Way, working to reveal our Galaxy’s present-day structure and unravel its ...

But a telescope reveals subtle structures within and outside the Milky Way that show how our own galaxy and others formed, explain their evolution through cosmic time, and even hint at their fate.