The JWST discovers the Zhúlóng spiral galaxy, as massive as the Milky Way, formed only a billion years after the Big Bang.

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, in which a bar-shaped region at the center is surrounded by a disk of stars and gas clouds that exist mainly in its four spiral “arms.” ...

Milky Way arcs over Kitt Peak National Observatory | Space photo of the day for June 16, 2025 Amateur astrophotographer captures gorgeous view of Bode's galaxy from Death Valley ...

A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda ...

A telescope in Chile has captured some of the most detailed photos of the Milky Way galaxy from the southern hemisphere. The Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment telescope, known as APEX, just completed ...

The winners of the 2021 Milky Way Photographer of the Year have been announced, and they’re providing some of the best views of our galaxy that we’ve ever seen.

Stars pepper Gaia’s all-sky view of our Milky Way Galaxy and neighboring galaxies in this image based on the measurement of nearly 1.7 billion stars.

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, in which a bar-shaped region at the center is surrounded by a disk of stars and gas clouds that exist mainly in its four spiral “arms.” ...