Ten areas in the sky were selected as “deep fields” that the Dark Energy Camera imaged several times during the survey, ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

A new study using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has helped to answer a continuous question in astronomy ...

Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1351, located in the constellation Ursa ...

This image illustrates a black hole drifting through the Milky Way, formed from a massive star’s collapsed core after a supernova. Its gravity bends space and distorts background starlight, a ...