Galaxy

An astrophysicist with the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth in the UK, has shed light on how the ancient Egyptians viewed our galaxy - the Milky Way - thousands of years ago. A new study...

A newly-discovered black hole, claimed to be the oldest ever found, is eating up material from an ancient galaxy at an unprecedented rate. Researchers, led by an academic from the University of Cambridge, claim to have discovered a black hole...

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets in our Galaxy, the Milky Way, which is untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find, announced on Nov. 29, can help explain how...

The vast universe holds many secrets, and the James Webb Space Telescope is on a mission to uncover some of them. Using this powerful telescope, astronomers have just discovered a brand-new galaxy called JWST-ER1. This exciting find is part of...

New observations from South Africa's MeerKAT telescope have unveiled a new discovery of numerous long strands of gas, stretching for 5 to 10 light-years, reaching out from the central black hole in our galaxy. The Space explains these strands or...

New research published in Nature Astronomy on Tuesday suggests that scientists have found a way to detect the formation of planets. Researchers used infrared imaging from the James Web Space Telescope (JWST) to detect thermal radiation emitted by warm dust...

An international team of space experts has discovered something incredible: a galaxy with some very unusual activity going on in its core, which has led to its being reclassified. The galaxy is called PBC J2333.9-2343, but after some new research,...

Cornell University astronomers have made an incredible discovery in the first image captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a blob of light near the edge of SPT0418-47, one of the brightest star-forming galaxies from the early universe. Gravitational...

A radio signal has been picked up by astronomers from the most distant galaxy known to mankind with a unique wavelength known as the "21-centimeter line" or the "hydrogen line," emitted by neutral hydrogen atoms. The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope...

More than 200 RR Lyrae stars—distant variable stars—have been found by astronomers in the Milky Way's stellar halo. Over a million light-years separate us from the furthest of these stars. This is roughly half the distance to our nearest...