After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ancient and faraway galaxy that provides evidence that an ...

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and ...

The Milky Way ski area: Just like the galaxy in the sky, the six ski resorts of the Milky Way (Via Lattea as it’s known to Italians) offer skiing and riding out of this stratosphere! The six ski ...

WASHINGTON – Quit by Monday and get $25,000. Maybe. That was the message of a Friday afternoon email from the U.S. Department of Education's top human resources official, who made the "one-time ...

What are you, SIMP 0136? Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way galaxy. It's rapidly spinning, and at some 13 ...

The image, captured on January 29 just before sunrise, presents an unusual view of our planet still shrouded in darkness, with the Milky Way galaxy stretching across the background. Unlike the typical ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking photo of the Milky Way from the ISS, highlighting the stunning view of our galaxy. As part of Expedition 72, Pettit and his team conduct crucial ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting measurable accelerations to Milky Way pulsars. They, in turn ...

The heart of our Milky Way galaxy is much more active than most people would realize. In fact, astronomers discovered two gigantic “bubbles” extending above and below the galactic center, roughly ...