Astronomers have long used the Milky Way as a benchmark for studying galaxy formation and evolution, assuming that its ...

Scientists have finally imaged a star outside of the Milky Way for the first time. Here's what it looks like and how they did ...

On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

Scientists may have finally hit upon the possible mysterious sources that have pumped heat and kept alive the fiery hot gas ...

Hubble captures the aftermath of the Large Magellanic Cloud’s dramatic encounter with the Milky Way, revealing the loss of ...

Astronomers have taken a superdetailed, zoomed-in photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud's "behemoth star." The stunning image, ...

"Maybe we didn't understand the universe as well as we thought," said astrophysicist Justus Gibson of CU Boulder.

The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a new image of a galaxy famously named after the Mexican hat style.

While astronomers have taken about two dozen zoomed-in images of stars in our galaxy, unveiling their properties, countless other stars dwell within other galaxies, so far away that observing even one ...

Edwin Hubble's revelation in 1924 that the Andromeda Nebula was, in fact, an 'island universe,' was a pivotal moment in our ...

In a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a galaxy named for its resemblance to a broad-brimmed Mexican hat appears more like an archery target. In Webb’s mid-infrared view of the ...