Astronomers have unveiled the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever created, offering a sprawling, ...

Astronomers have spotted a ghostly visitor soaring through the Milky Way - a winged cloud of gas and dust that looks like a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, S. Payne-Wardenaar, L. McCallum et al (2025) Astronomers have unveiled the ...

The European Southern Observatory captured a nebula bat during a survey of the Milky Way's galactic plane. Astronomers have ...

Halloween telescope image reveals bat-shaped stellar nursery where infant stars are born. The cosmic creature spans four full ...

A spooky bat has been spotted flying over the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Paranal site in Chile, right in time ...

A detailed infrared view of the Galactic Center region of our Milky Way Galaxy. These infrared images are sensitive to the presently forming massive stars there as well as the emission from cool ...

Credit: ESA/Cover Images A ghostly figure has been caught swooping through the night sky just in time for Halloween.

Scientists created the most accurate 3D map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope. This map will teach us more about ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled a breathtaking cosmic landscape that looks more like a scene from fantasy than reality. What appears to be a glowing mountain peak shrouded in mist is ...

Astronomers have found a septet of superclouds lying just beyond the solar system. These giant strings of gas — five of which were previously unknown — sit nearly parallel to each other, and most of ...