Astronomers have taken a superdetailed, zoomed-in photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud's "behemoth star." The stunning image, ...

Research shows that galaxies form inside gigantic haloes of dark matter, the elusive substance that doesn't interact with ...

The WEAVE telescope has documented a high-speed collision of galaxies in Stephan's Quintet, revealing the powerful shockwaves ...

The name for our galaxy comes from the ancient Greek words for ‘milk’ or ‘milky’. They could only see it as a bright band of ...

A brand new image snapped by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals the intricate details of the core of the ...

But this is misleading — M104 is far from empty. In fact, it contains more stars than the Milky Way (though it’s roughly the ...

A study that sheds new light on how pulsar signals—the spinning remnants of massive stars—distort as they travel through ...

The collision in Stephan's Quintet was observed by WEAVE, a new instrument on one of the world's most powerful telescopes, in ...

"Maybe we didn't understand the universe as well as we thought," said astrophysicist Justus Gibson of CU Boulder.

WOH G64 lies within the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the small galaxies that orbits the Milky Way. Astronomers have known ...

Using the Japanese-led X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), astronomers have taken a deep look into a fascinating ...

The formation of galaxies in the universe should follow a fairly simple path. It starts with small galaxies, which then grow ...