The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a strikingly mature galaxy that mirrors the structure of our own Milky Way, but from a time when the universe was just a fraction of its current age.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

It also fulfilled its primary goal of drawing the biggest and most precise map of the Milky Way, providing the clearest reconstructed view of how our galaxy might appear to an outside observer.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

Skygazers can enjoy meteor showers and other dazzling displays in the night sky all month long, according to astronomers.

Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

A comparison between J2345-0449 and our much small galaxy the Milky Way | Credit ... out at near-light speeds as these extraordinary twin jets. Sgr A* doesn't currently have such powerful jets ...