Sagittarius C, a turbulent region near the Milky Way’s center, is glowing with hot plasma and threaded by magnetic fields, ...

A remarkable new study using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered shocking details about a star-forming region ...

Spoiler warning: Below there will be information about today's New York Times Strands puzzle.

NASA's Chandra Observatory recently captured an X-ray image that helped identify a dramatic break in one of the galaxy's ...

Another aspect that puzzles scientists is Zhúlóng ... This remarkable galaxy demonstrates that the universe could produce structures resembling modern spiral galaxies like our Milky Way in just a ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the researchers.

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.