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

Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that Leo ...

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...

By combining data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and the Gemini South telescope, astronomers have investigated three ...

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The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the ...

New ground- and space-based infrared observations are giving astronomers a better handle on the true populations of red ...

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Scientists detected water along with carbon monoxide in SPT0311-58 - made up of two galaxies - located nearly 12.88 billion ...

Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early galaxies formed.

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...