ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

Happy Galaxies Day! A century ago tonight, Edwin Hubble exposed a photograph at the 100-inch telescope on Mt. Wilson whose ...

Stunning new photographs taken by Wellesley College astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have unveiled a newly ...

Astronomers uncover a young galaxy similar to the Milky Way, shedding light on its early formation just 600 million years ...

But around the cosmic time that we are seeing the Firefly Sparkle, Milky Way-like galaxy progenitors were about 10,000 times less massive than today’s Milky Way. Hopefully with the collaboration ...

The Milky Way is our galactic home, but just how big is it?  Dive into this fascinating exploration of the galaxy's size, scale, and structure. Get ready for an astronomical perspective on our place ...

Called Kepler-51, the Sun-like yellow dwarf star was found in 2012 to have three exoplanets in its orbit; each, it would turn ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are excited ...