Recently, an international team of astronomers from China's top Tsinghua University, along with collaborators from Italy, ...

Astronomers discovered the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy, located 200,000 light-years away, has stars moving in two opposing ...

Small companion galaxies around our neighboring Andromeda galaxy appear to stretch and point toward Earth in a fascinating ...

New radio images reveal an unusually faint and symmetrical supernova remnant, nicknamed Telios, lurking just below the ...

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

Among the wreckage of the Milky Way — where the violent deaths of stars usually leave chaos and crumpled shells — astronomers ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is home to some extremely weird things, but a new discovery has astronomers truly baffled.

A groundbreaking study published in Nature Astronomyreveals an unprecedented look at the turbulent magnetic forces shaping ...

To celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman - NASA's first chief astronomer and the namesake for the ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

The results allowed the astronomers to reconstruct the first detailed, three-dimensional map of the extinction curve of dust in the Milky Way ... which occurs in giant gas clouds shielded by ...

It is important for star formation, which occurs in giant gas clouds shielded by their dust ... Green, “Three-dimensional maps of the interstellar dust extinction curve within the Milky Way galaxy,” ...