Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us ...

JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from ...

Galaxies are clouds of stars that range in both size and composition. Some contain hundreds of millions of stars while the largest galaxies can contain trillions of stars. And while it’s not entirely ...

Astronomers believe there are about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way. But, this number of stars depends on various factors. To figure out how many stars are in the Milky Way, astronomers have to ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, and found that ...

While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the universe created by a mysterious substance known as dark matter. "Analyzing ...

Structures known as "zippers" and "twisters" in the early universe may explain why dwarf galaxies tend to line up with each other, as well as hint at how dark matter operates in the universe.

Q How many galaxies are in the universe? — Gus Powvens, Madison, Wis. A Jim Lattis, director of the UW Space Place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Galaxies are clouds of stars that range in ...