Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

With new images from the Hubble Space Telescope, we have new information here in the Milky Way about our closest neighboring ...

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

Astronomers have unveiled the largest-ever photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, a sprawling celestial giant with over 1 ...

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.

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

This is the largest photomosaic yet assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 ...

The universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous—and highly ...