NASA's Hubble telescope reveals the Andromeda Galaxy has been forming fewer new stars for 500 million years. Here's why the ...

Don Pettit shared that the image is part of a newly released archive containing 1.2 million RAW image files collected during a recent mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

The image is the result of months of orbital photography, specialised camera equipment and an ingenious solution that ...

Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit has released a breathtaking photograph of the Milky Way captured during his latest mission aboard the International Space Station, offering one of the clearest views ...

Astronomers used cosmic explosions to find that we may be wrong about our own galaxy.

A slowly rotating stellar halo was the clue to a major and unknown event in the Milky Way's history that saw the spiral disc ...

Scientists have identified LHAASO J1912+1014u as a cosmic accelerator that can push protons beyond one quadrillion electron volts. The finding may help reveal where the Milky Way’s most energetic ...

This is the largest high-resolution photo ever made of our Milky Way galaxy's centre in visible light. It was taken on 23 March 2025 by the European Space Agency's Euclid space te ...

For many people, the Milky Way is something they have seen only in photographs. Under most urban skies, the galaxy's faint glow is washed out by artificial light, leaving only the brightest stars ...

Astronomers have discovered remnants of a galaxy that the Milky Way gobbled up roughly 10 billion years ago, consisting of "metal-poor" stars consistent with dwarf galaxies. Space is mind-bogglingly ...

Positrons—the antimatter counterpart of electrons—are created in high-energy cosmic processes. When normal matter meets its ...

Fireworks may not be the only light show this 4th of July weekend (and beyond.) The darkest California skies may deliver ...