The Whirlpool galaxy (M51) is a classic grand spiral galaxy. It was the first object identified as a spiral, way back in 1845 ...

Artistic illustration of how the Milky Way’s disc may have shifted by more than 90 degrees. The faint outline shows its possible former orientation, while the surrounding stellar halo preserves clues ...

Astronomers found the most distant nuclear disc ever seen, showing galaxies became organized far earlier in the Universe than ...

Astrophotographer Sadeq Hayati spills his secrets to snapping stunning night sky images without a big, fancy camera.

The suburbs have a bad reputation. As endless tracts of anodyne nowhere, sinkholes of boredom and isolation, far from the ...

Astro Brief is a podcast collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Researchers have discovered that our galaxy's outermost spiral arms are wide open and farther away than we thought ...

A newly confirmed dwarf galaxy orbiting Andromeda contains so few stars that automated detection pipelines ignored it entirely — and that invisibility may be precisely what makes it scientifically ...

The Euclid space telescope has spotted the oldest quasars — the brightest objects in the universe — ever discovered, deepening a cosmic mystery that has been puzzling scientists. Quasars are powered ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the spiral galaxy NGC 5134 using its Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) and Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam). The galaxy is located about 65 million light-years ...

Fireworks may not be the only light show this July Fourth weekend. Here's how you can see the Milky Way this month across the US.