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For the first time, astronomers have captured images that show a star consuming one of its planets. The star, named ZTF SLRN-2020, is located in the Milky Way galaxy, in the constellation Aquila. As the star swallowed its planet, the star brightened to 100 times its normal level, allowing the…

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured an amazing photo of Arp 220, a collective name for two spiral galaxies that started merging 700 million years ago.

At about 600 million years after the Big Bang, they're not the oldest galaxies the telescope has spotted. But they appear as developed as our Milky Way — far further along than researchers expected.

Witing in the The Astrophysical Journal, a new paper looks into the likely number of Communicating Extra-Terrestrial Intelligent (CETI) civilizations in the Milky Way

"The Sparkler" looks like the Milky Way when it was a baby

Astronomers used the motion of stars to reconstruct a galactic collision that happened 2 billion years ago at the nearest neighboring large galaxy.

From the Big Bang to dark energy, knowledge of the cosmos has sped up in the past century — but big questions linger

Illustris TNG simulation shows that the Milky Way is special, all thanks to a cosmic wall.

The photographer who for the last two years has traveled thousands of miles chasing amazing starscapes around Spain.