It looks at how streams of interstellar bodies might escape a solar system and how they would then move through the Milky Way ...

"Our reconstruction shows that clumps of actively forming stars are surrounded by diffuse light from other unresolved stars," ...

Sometimes in astronomy, a simple question has a difficult answer. One such question is this: what is the mass of our galaxy?

Researchers for the first time have tracked a pulsing radio signal in space back to its original source — deep in our Milky ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because ...

A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing—not even light—can escape from it. At the center of ...

For the first time, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has detected and "weighed" a galaxy that not only existed ...

Most people do not like running, most people do not go outside at night, and most people find the desert contains a variety ...

The Firefly Sparkle galaxy is so named because it resembles a "sparkle" or swarm of lightning bugs on a warm summer night.

Nicknamed the Firefly Sparkle, this galaxy existed just 600 million years after the Big Bang and gleams with 10 distinct star ...

NASA astronauts on the ISS share images of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. It can be hard to see from Earth, but the view ...

Why is your discovery of the Firefly Sparkle galaxy important? Telescopes like JWST are essentially time machines. Since ...