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

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

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

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

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

A South African telescope has identified a colossal galaxy stretching 3.3 million light-years, over 32 times the size of the ...

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

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant radio galaxy with plasma jets stretching an incredible 3.3 million light-years—32 times ...

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

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

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