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

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

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

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

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

But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...

The Andromeda galaxy, our closest large galactic neighbor, is a treasure trove of stars and cosmic mysteries. Thanks to ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

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

Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...