Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the Milky Way called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). This region holds clues ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a detailed image of Messier 63. It is also known as the Sunflower Galaxy. The galaxy is 27 million light-years away in Canes Venatici. Astronomers study its ...