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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...