Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

Though tiny, this newfound satellite galaxy around M31 offers big lessons — and questions — about how galaxies evolve.

Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Euclid has two instruments: its visible light camera, VIS, and its near-infrared light camera, NISP. NISP allows Euclid to ...

The ancient Greeks named it "galaxies kuklos," or "milk circle," and the Romans dubbed it the "Milky Way." It was in the year ...

At the heart of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, lurks a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants ...

Key TakeawaysThe Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument collaboration has publicly released the first 13 months of data from its main survey - a ...

The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring ...

See the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the Milky Way galaxy in this time-lapse view from the International Space Station.

Known as the cosmic microwave background, the microwaves are a relic from a time when the universe was first cooling down ...

Enjoy 12 digital issues a year from the global design authority Choose a print or digital subscription, or both ...