The Gaia telescope spotted more than 6,000 sunlike stars, all of which appear to have migrated from the galaxy's center more ...

Here's how to see the Milky Way this spring. When is peak viewing for the Milky Way? Though the Milky Way is generally always ...

The Milky Way resides in a cosmic neighborhood called the Local Group that includes more than 50 other galaxies. Those galaxies can be as "small" as a dwarf galaxy, with up to only a few billion stars ...

The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) spacecraft has delivered an "unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur ...

Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using 100,000 supercomputer simulations. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Scientists believe this long stream of gas may have formed when several galaxies collided millions of years ago.

"Milky Way season" is here, and dark sky areas in Michigan offer prime visibility of our galaxy.

The Sombrero Galaxy (Messier 104) is one of the most unique galaxies captured by NASA’s telescopes. It gets its name from its shape, which resembles a broad-rimmed Mexican hat when viewed from Earth.

NASA has received the first images from a tiny spacecraft designed to study the ...

A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy buried in a huge stream of gas. Astronomers have never seen this type of explosive event in an ...

This pair of images shows stars observed Feb. 6, 2026, by the SPARCS space telescope simultaneously in the near-ultraviolet, ...

If you are able to pull yourself from the multitude of screens in your home, you may be able to see a truly out of this world show pass directly over your home. The International Space Station is a ...