The new image is an up-close view of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters could play an important role in distributing organic molecules ...

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and ...

Containing dust, planets and an estimated 100 billion stars, our Milky Way Galaxy will be putting on a show at times this summer such that it can be seen with the naked eye from certain parts of ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

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

An image of the Milky Way captured by the MeerKAT radio telescope array puts the James Webb Space Telescope’s image of the Sagittarius C region in context. The MeerKAT image spans 1,000 light ...

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Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole? New research seems to suggest this possibility. NASA's James Webb Telescope discovered that the rotation of the galaxies goes against what ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 346, a star cluster located within the Small Magellanic ...