US and Canada-based scientists revealed in a recent study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters that up to 18% of ...

Over 40 stars in a galaxy billions of light-years away were photographed, offering a glimpse into an era when the universe ...

Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...

One of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize, the Queen offers observers many worthy sights.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies ...

Researchers have unveiled a cosmic cycle where carbon, created in the explosions of stars, travels through space via a ...

A group of astronomers have made history by capturing an image of a record number of stars from a time when the universe was ...

Unless one is a scientist or a teacher of the sciences, it would be understandable if a person may not be familiar with ...

While the extra-galactic stars provided a microlensing effect, large clusters of dark matter provided a macrolensing effect.

The team used Hubble data to analyze the CGM of 11 star-forming galaxies, finding strong signals of carbon as far as 391,000 ...