This breathtaking Hubble image of spiral galaxy NGC 1309 reveals more than swirling stars and glowing dust—it holds a cosmic mystery.

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 ...

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

The Sculptor Galaxy is among the closest massive star-forming galaxies to our own Milky Way, lying just 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere’s constellation Sculptor.

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.

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

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 ...

They are produced when a binary star system - two stars gravitationally bound to each other - ventures too close to a supermassive black hole. "The intense gravitational forces tear the pair apart.

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.

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.