A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

Scientists have discovered an enormous radio galaxy 32 times the size of the Milky Way. They nicknamed it "Inkathazo," or ...

Astronomers have discovered 'Bullseye,' a record-breaking galaxy with nine rings—six more than any other known galaxy.

Collaboration has achieved the highest-resolution Earth-based observations to date, detecting light at 345 GHz from the ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

In last week’s Record we had an article on the front page about Mark Karrer’s photo of the Milky Way taken at Toad Stool Geologic Park ... You can use a light pollution map to find out what the light ...

a binary star system in our galaxy. How is carbon, a key building block of life, produced and distributed across space? Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified a stellar duo ...

By that metric, the ESA's Gaia mission is a resounding success. The spacecraft gave us a precise, 3D map of our Milky Way galaxy and has forced us to abandon old ideas and replace them with compelling ...