The Milky Way
Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is believed to…
Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy,…
Editor’s note: This story was updated March 11, 2025, to reflect a new target launch date and time. NASA’s latest…
This is a wide-angle view of the distribution of known satellite galaxies orbiting the large Andromeda galaxy (M31), located 2.5…
This animation begins with a view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. We zoom through a scattering of foreground stars and…
Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly…
NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025,…
Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across…
This artist's concept shows the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, in the foreground as it passes through the gaseous halo…
