Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...
An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new dwarf galaxy, which they have named Pegasus VII. The ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured a stunning image of Leo P, a small, isolated dwarf galaxy ...
Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.
Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...
Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb ...
Scientists predict Andromeda and the Milky Way will collide in about 4.5 billion years—reshaping the night sky forever!.
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on Leo P, a tiny galaxy with some big things to say about star formation.
Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos ...
The Andromeda nebula, M31, was a prominent example ... Galaxies come in a very wide range of sizes and masses. Measuring a galaxy’s brightness or apparent size is not a good guide to its distance.