Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. "Milky Way season," when the galaxy's bright center becomes easier to see from Earth, typically runs ...

Because of this, the scientists behind the study were able to get a look at 44 stars in the "Dragon Arc," a part of the Abell 370 galaxy cluster. The arc is about 6.5 billion light-years away from ...

Stars uncontaminated by heavier elements are thought to have formed very early in the universe, but a galaxy much later in ...

The rarest black holes in the universe may be 'wandering' our galaxy He and his colleagues describe the D9 stars in a paper published Tuesday (Dec. 17) in the journal Nature Communications.

Because of this, the scientists behind the study were able to get a look at 44 stars in the "Dragon Arc," a part of the Abell 370 galaxy cluster. The arc is about 6.5 billion light-years away from ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Nearly every large galaxy ...

Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away from the Milky Way.

Researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to zero in on a dwarf galaxy that suddenly started making stars after a billions-of-years-long pause.

To explore the galaxy and hunt for resources, intelligent aliens might need to turn their home stars into natural spaceships, a new paper suggests. A few known star systems might fit the bill.