Astronomers have unveiled the largest-ever photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, a sprawling celestial giant with over 1 ...

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.

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we just ...

This colorful view of N79 centers on a star-forming molecular cloud complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...

The universe could be home to far more supermassive black holes than we realised, according to new research. Astronomers from ...