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

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.

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.

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.

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.

A new study of super-fast-moving stars suggests that they were accelerated by a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door. This appears to be the closest supermassive ...

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.

This dwarf galaxy merged with the Milky Way around 10 billion years ago, added at least eight globular clusters and some 50 billion solar masses' worth of stars, gas and dark matter.

Science Two stars may be orbiting each other near a supermassive black hole in our Milky Way galaxy Dec. 17, 2024 at 8:01 am Updated Dec. 17, 2024 at 9:00 am By Adithi Ramakrishnan ...