The “ghost towns,” named Sculptor A, B, and C, consist of three faint and ultra-faint galaxies about 6.5 million light-years ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...

From starry skies and urban sights to mysterious wilderness, noctourism is about discovering the magic of exploration by ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for ...

The Andromeda galaxy is a colossal marvel in our sky, hosting over 1 trillion stars. Now, astronomers have used the Hubble ...

This monumental project involved more than 600 snapshots and required over 1,000 Hubble orbits, showcasing the intricate beauty and complexity of Messier 31.

Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that Leo ...

NASA has released this photomosaic in two images that can be downloaded from its website: ...

In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

This colorful view of N79 centers on a star-forming molecular cloud complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud.