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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies - both possessing roughly as many stars as our Milky Way - careening toward each other before their inevitable merger at a time ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists found that many galaxies started as thick discs before forming the thin discs we see now. This discovery helps answer a long-standing mystery ...

There's a patch of sky that has experts at NASA transfixed. It shows 30 galaxies that all appear to be facing the direction ...

The European Space Agency's Euclid mission—designed to map the geometry of the dark universe with unprecedented ...

Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity’s cosmic home for a very, very long time.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have captured the most detailed look yet at how galaxies formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang – and found they were far ...