NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

American space agency NASA announced the first major science program for the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, aside from the ...

Astronomers believe the two galaxies may collide in next 10 billion years Theory based on data from Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia star-tracking mission 'In short, the probability went from ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...

Our galaxy will make for a particularly splendid sight on the dark nights surrounding the new moon phase on Aug. 23. Head away from city lights in late August to see the dense core of the Milky Way ...

James Webb Space Telescope reveals thick cosmic dust of Sagittarius B2, the most enormous star-forming cloud in the Milky Way — Space photo of the week Unprecedented view of the Milky Way took 40,000 ...

It's a reminder of why preserving pristine night skies remains essential for both astronomy and human wonder. High atop the arid plateaus of Chile's Atacama Desert, one of humanity's most powerful ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

It’s been textbook knowledge for over a century that our Milky Way galaxy is doomed to collide with another large spiral galaxy, Andromeda, in the next 5 billion years and merge into one even bigger ...

We cannot see or image the entire Milky Way galaxy, because we are located inside it. From Earth, we can observe only a portion of the galaxy, and when we look up at the dark, clear night sky from a ...

Astronomers have identified a remarkable population of distant quasars whose radio jets balloon to scales that make our own ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to embark on one of the most ambitious space projects in history, unveiling ...