Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a true factory for the production and dissemination of elements essential to all ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that the Coma Cluster of galaxies is 38 million ...

By that metric, the ESA's Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way ...

Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of ...

"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

In our new paper, published in Nature Astronomy ... It is reasonable to generalize from here to a truly gargantuan number of ...