The Milky Way and thousands of other galaxies are drawn to "something": We have no idea what it is. The Great Attractor is a ...

In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of researchers led by Kristen McQuinn, a scientist at the Space ...

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

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

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

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

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

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...

By combining data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and the Gemini South telescope, astronomers have investigated three ...

The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...

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

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...