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

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

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 ...

Astronomers have captured the high-speed collision of two galaxies, providing insights into a cosmic event that mirrors scenarios for the distant future of our Milky Way.

A massive collision of galaxies sparked by one traveling at a scarcely-believable 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h) has been ...

Astronomers have taken a zoomed-in photo of a star outside the Milky Way for the first time, the European Southern Observatory announced in a statement Thursday.

Scientists have captured the first-ever close-up image of a dying star outside of the Milky Way galaxy. The star, WOH G64, is ...

WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel. Through this ...

The research, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, offers a preview of the potential future of ...

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

Astronomers have captured the first detailed images of a star beyond our Milky Way galaxy on the verge of a supernova. The ...

The Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered ...