Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is considered a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It's actually visible to the naked eye ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

Astronomers from the Australian National University (ANU) have unveiled a ground-breaking discovery of binary stars in the outer regions of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, marking a world-first ...

The Hubble Space Telescope reveals how color filters tease out the life cycles of stars in spiral galaxy NGC 6000 — while a ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...

Using the James Webb telescope, astronomers estimate the number of galaxies in the universe to be roughly two trillion (2,000,000,000,000). This is about 10 times as many as previously thought ...

The Methuselah Star, also known asHD 140283, has long been a subject of fascination among astronomers. Its age, initially ...

Join in for live views of our nearby galactic neighborhood from the dark skies at McDonald Observatory.

Anyone who studies planetary formation would relish the opportunity to get a close-up look at an interstellar object. Sending ...

For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...