An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

The galaxy next to ours might be getting torn apart, a study has suggested. The Small Magellanic Cloud, or SMC – a relatively ...

"We discovered a galaxy which formed 15 billion times the mass of the sun in stars and then stopped forming stars before the ...

The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the picturesque spiral galaxy NGC 4941, which lies about 67 million light ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant quiescent galaxy ever seen – one that had ...

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This ...

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking ...