Using Hubble, astronomers have discovered that a "helium nova" in the Milky Way is riddling our galaxy with cosmic bullets ...

The Milky Way may not always have faced the same direction. New simulations suggest its stellar disc could have swung through ...

Mysterious high-speed "bullets"—clumps of possibly oxygen-rich gas traveling at up to 20 million miles per hour—have been ...

Scientists have long suspected that this star cluster was a hotspot for a certain kind of black hole. But for decades, they ...

For 25 years, one of the Milky Way’s strangest stellar explosions hid its culprit behind its own debris. Now the dust has ...

Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture cosmic 'bullets' streaming from V445 Puppis, a unique stellar explosion in the Milky Way firing clumps of gas into space at 20 million miles ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope gave the nation a scientifically loaded Independence Day gift on July 3, 2026: a new portrait of Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way's most massive globular clusters, ...

Astronomers have used the ages of more than 155,000 stars in the Milky Way to independently estimate the age of the universe, ...

The Euclid space telescope's stunning photo of our galaxy's “crowded heart” captures more than 60 million stars.

NASA proved Terzan 5 is not a globular star cluster but a living fossil from the Milky Way's earliest formation. Webb and Hubble jointly revealed four distinct stellar generations spanning 12.5 ...

Omega Centauri black hole: NASA's Hubble and Webb have confirmed the first stellar-mass black hole ever found in Omega ...

To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, NASA released a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope showing more than 500,000 stars glowing in shades of red, white and blue. The ...