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

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar ...

New measurements show that the expansion rate of the universe is faster than can be explained by our current understanding of ...

In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of researchers led by Kristen McQuinn, a scientist at the Space ...

In the modern universe, supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies and their host galaxies grow together. But this ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

Astronomers have struggled with finding ultra-faint dwarf galaxies far enough from the Milky Way's influence, making these ...

The galaxies are located in the constellation of Sculptor and have been given the names Sculptor A, B, and C. All their stars are old, indicating that they stopped making new ones a very long time ago ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...