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

A team of UNSW Sydney researchers has unlocked the "sounds" of stars to better understand their age, mass, and evolutionary ...

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

"We were surprised by the streams of light that were visible near the center of the galaxies, as nothing similar has been ...

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

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope has captured the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530, located 40 million light-years ...

Astronomer Charles Steinhardt said most stars we see "might have formed under different conditions than we previously believed." ...

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

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

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

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

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 chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...