Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the ...
The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...
The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...
The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...
Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way.
New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...
Astronomers have struggled with finding ultra-faint dwarf galaxies far enough from the Milky Way's influence, making these ...
The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapping space mission Gaia, which involves UCL researchers, has completed its ...
Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.