The James Webb Space Telescope is turning the Milky Way inside out, exposing the buried engines that actually drive our galaxy’s star production. By peering through dust, resolving crowded stellar ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three times the size of the Milky Way. Like our own galaxy, a supermassive black ...

Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

All of the people and mountains and planets and stars that you see around you only make up 15% of the universe's mass. The ...

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...