Astronomers have unveiled surprising new details about a small galaxy, NGC 300, challenging existing theories on galaxy ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

MILES O'BRIEN: Well, Geoff, if you could imagine a baby picture of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, this is probably ... As objects move away from us, as they are post-Big Bang, they move into ...

Map of the Milky Way plane obtained from data from the Gaia catalog (eDR3). The upper part shows a region where the Palomar 5 star cluster and its tidal tails are observed (DESI Legacy Imaging ...

The Milky Way and thousands of other galaxies are drawn to "something": We have no idea what it is. The Great Attractor is a ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

A strange break in a stream of stars in the Milky Way could be the result of dark matter, but only if the dark matter is hot ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for ...