The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

Beauty Of Tarantula Nebula This nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most active star-forming regions, filled ...

Caldwell 71, or NGC 2477, is an open star cluster. Open clusters are loosely bound collections of stars. It is located roughly 4,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis.

The Universe is full of dust, and a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlights just how important it is.

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to several hundred of years. The remnant is located in the "Large Magellanic ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

Check out these seven most beautiful space images captured by NASA Hubble Space Telescope. Globular Cluster NGC 1850, ...

When the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, scientists were able to confirm what seemed an ...

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...