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Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to find dozens of ancient stars in a far-off galaxy. These stars were spotted in the Dragon Arc, a galaxy located 6.5 billion light-years away.

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Now, Rigorer is reprising a fan-favorite colorway from the first model. The cosmic "Milky Way" colorway is making its return in the unmistakable purple and blue color scheme. Below is a detailed ...

But a telescope reveals subtle structures within and outside the Milky Way that show how our own galaxy and others formed, explain their evolution through cosmic time, and even hint at their fate.

(Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com Spur and gap features seen in Milky Way’s GD-1 stellar stream could be caused by a self-interacting dark matter subhalo. New research points to a dark ...

LISA aims to study the formation of compact binary stars and the structure of the Milky Way galaxy. Additionally, it will be tracing the merger history of black holes and probing the rate of expansion ...