A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...

Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...

As far back as our most powerful telescopes have ever looked, we've never yet found the limit of where stars and galaxies cease to exist.There's a big gap between the first galaxy we've ever found ...

When it comes to star formation, not all galaxies are the same. Some are quenched, meaning they've depleted their star ...

The cluster of 250 stars are rotating with the Milky Way’s galactic disk, where most of the galaxy’s stars are located. But the Nyx stars are also moving toward the center of the galaxy.

Though the galaxy is over 2 million light-years away, the Hubble telescope is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000-light-year-long stretch of the galaxy's pancake-shaped disk.

How about Obi-Wan Kenobi's accumulated mileage during the Clone Wars? The good news is that the force is with you: All of ...

“It’s a galaxy made only out of gas — it has no visible stars,” she said. “Stars could be there, we just can’t see them.” The galaxy, known as J0613+52, is about 270 million light ...

But just how many stars are there in the galaxy? Unfortunately, we can’t simply look at all the stars with telescopes and count them up. That’s because our galaxy isn’t only full of stars.