Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand ...

In research published today, Australian scientists have taken a critical step towards understanding why different types of galaxies exist throughout the universe. The research, made possible by ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

Up until recently, astronomy was reliant entirely on electromagnetic waves. While that changed with the confirmation of gravitational waves in 2016, astronomers had developed fundamental frameworks in ...

From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s first picture released to the public showed off thousands of galaxies. At first glance, the pinpoints of light shining in the blackness of space look like little stars ...

Image of galaxy ESO 185-IG013 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Photo courtesy of NASA Feb. 2 (UPI) --NASA released new images from the Hubble Space Telescope on Friday with rare images of two ...

Scientists observed SN 2004et and SN2017eaw, located on opposite sides of the spiral galaxy NGC 6946 also known as the Fireworks Galaxy, using the infrared imaging capabilities of the James Webb Space ...

An array of 350 radio telescopes in the Karoo desert of South Africa is getting closer to detecting the “cosmic dawn” — the era after the Big Bang when stars first ignited and galaxies began to bloom.

The Fermi Paradox, first devised by physicist Enrico Fermi in the 1950s, asks why we haven’t detected alien civilization yet, despite the vast universe teeming with countless potentially habitable ...