In addition to helping the researchers nail down the nebula's ellipsoidal structure, the 3D model also confirmed that the ...

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

These massive currents carry material on a journey through and around star-forming galaxies before they settle and form stars ...

Leo P, a galaxy once dormant, has reawakened to form stars again, offering new clues about the universe's earliest galaxies.

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.

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

A study carried out by a team of astronomers led by University of Arizona researcher Catherine Fielder has found that smaller ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

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

Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster that stretches across 30,000 light-years and is located about 80,000 light-years from ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...