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

An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the ...

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...

Astronomers have detected a repeating radio signal from an ancient galaxy 2 billion light-years away, challenging assumptions ...

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to produce these types of signals.

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

Astrophotographers use sophisticated imaging technology to take and edit photographs that bring us the cosmos with startling ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...