Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us ...

The discovery that the universe extends beyond the Milky Way galaxy was a pivotal moment in astronomy. In 1925, astronomer Edwin Hubble identified a Cepheid variable star, known as V1, in the ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how galaxies formed in the early universe.

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...