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

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided unprecedented details about the Andromeda galaxy's history and characteristics.

Crucial to all life on Earth, the 15th element of phosphorus remains a real puzzle for astronomers. Specialized space ...

Using IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists identify hundreds of obscured black holes hidden behind gas and dust.

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...

Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...

For years, Arlene Jurewicz-Leighton taught online courses for science educators. She noticed that her home in Lincolnville ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way.

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