In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

Most of the exoplanets we've discovered orbit red dwarf stars. This isn't because red dwarfs are somehow special, simply that ...

Researchers at the University of Surrey have confirmed their astrophysical models using new data from the Euclid space ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

He also captured the main belt of the Milky Way in the distance, something he aimed to do once the moon could not be seen during the night portions of the station's orbit. "The solar array light ...

Astronomers led by Song Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have discovered an unusual celestial phenomenon, ...

Andromeda III is one of at least 13 dwarf satellite galaxies in orbit around the Andromeda galaxy, or Messier 31, the Milky Way's closest grand spiral galactic neighbor. Andromeda III is a faint ...

New wide field view mosaic from the James Webb Space Telescope spectroscopic survey of NGC1333 with ... [+] three of the newly discovered free-floating planetary-mass objects indicated by green ...

Astronomers will soon begin a search of 2,800 galaxies for signs of advanced alien civilizations using a radio telescope in ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is a cannibal. It has grown by consuming other galaxies. Yet, it too, may be destined to collide and merge with an even bigger galaxy: Andromeda. Though galaxy collisions are ...