Explore the James Webb Space Telescope's incredible discovery: a cosmic alignment revealing the teenage years of our Milky Way galaxy.

Fascinated by the night sky he purchased his Wray telescope (a very expensive purchase ... Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors, who are the museums and ...

The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years of the universe. At double the width of our Milky Way galaxy, this jet of ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

The Hubble telescope is yielding new clues to the evolutionary history of Andromeda, and it looks markedly different from the Milky Way's history. Without Andromeda as a proxy for spiral galaxies ...

Yet, each one carries its own unique history spanning billions of years, all written in its light, chemical makeup and behavior measurable by telescopes. In deciphering sagas of eons past ...

"A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away..." Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to map out the history of stars in a low-mass dwarf galaxy that resembles galaxies ...