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

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

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

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

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 ...