Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured a colorful portrait of the Andromeda Galaxy from the Dark Sky Alqueva Observatory in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals turbulent environments found in Sagittarius C, a core part of our Milky Way galaxy.

Possible dark galaxy discovered near Milky Way Emits no visible light, made of hydrogen and dark matter Detected using Green ...

Scientists made the claim after analysing the data collected by the European Space Agency's recently retired Gaia spacecraft.

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

JWST discovers Zhúlóng, the earliest Milky Way-like galaxy, 800 million years after the Big Bang explosion occurred.

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

A quiet neighbour of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), appears to be falling apart. And scientists say they ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, which gave birth to the universe some 13.8 ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will collide ... The blast—were we around to see it—would appear ...