Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous spiral galaxy bursting with new star formation.

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral arms ...

The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), is unlike most of the galaxy. Almost 80 percent of its dense gas is held there, ...

Scientists suspect lightweight dark matter might ionize hydrogen in the Milky Way’s core. This could also explain the 511-keV ...

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...

While scientists think that most galaxies have a giant black hole at their centers, until now no one knew that one of these ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a 'rogue' cosmic object barrelling through our galaxy without a star, and covered ...