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

The new galaxy, because of how far away it is, looks to observers exactly as it did when it was first created 3 billion years ...

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

In a groundbreakingrelease on July 7, 2025, NASA showcased extraordinary images from its Hubble and Webb space telescopes ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...