"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

In this special Hubble image 23 years in the making, the sparkling spiral galaxy UGC 10043 reveals the secrets of its ...

Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...

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

Zhúlóng stands out for its well-defined spiral arms, extending over 62,000 light-years, and a classic nucleus. This discovery, published in arXiv, opens new perspectives on galaxy formation in the ...

Yale researchers among those who discovered three “ultra-massive” galaxies, which were formed shortly after the Big Bang and ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have ...