For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 million ...

Astronomers have struggled with finding ultra-faint dwarf galaxies far enough from the Milky Way's influence, making these ...

A team of astronomers led by David Sand, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona Steward Observatory, has uncovered three faint and ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected and “weighed” a galaxy – seen 600 million years after the Big Bang – that is ...

Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...

Two stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 collide, forming carbon-rich dust. Webb captured 17 expanding dust shells, revealing ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected and "weighed" a galaxy - seen 600 million years after the Big Bang - that is ...

A new study suggests more supermassive black holes may be lurking in the universe than previously thought. Astronomers from ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

Many more supermassive black holes could be hiding in the universe than previously thought, according to a new study.

to observe the 'inside-out' growth of a galaxy in the early universe, only 700 million years after the Big ... Oct. 7, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy ...