In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...
In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...
In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of researchers led by Kristen McQuinn, a scientist at the Space ...
For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 million ...
Astronomers suggest that galaxies might be anchored to massive, invisible dark stars composed of 'fuzzy' dark matter, which ...
Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early galaxies formed.
A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...
A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...
The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...
New ground- and space-based infrared observations are giving astronomers a better handle on the true populations of red ...
US and Canada-based scientists revealed in a recent study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters that up to 18% of ...