Astronomers have identified what could be the largest structure ever observed in the known universe—a vast network of galaxy ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...

But when they processed the data, they discovered 44 individual stars. This marks the largest group of stars imaged so far outside our galaxy. Until now, the largest groups seen contained just ...

Scientists highlighted "interesting regions" labelled A to E in the "largest photomosaic ... a couple bright foreground stars that are actually inside our Milky Way B - NGC 206 the most ...

NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...

This discovery now allows astronomers to witness the birth of a super star cluster in our neighboring galaxy. The LMC, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, is located nearly 160,000 light ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

Toward the end of the 18th century, astronomer William Herschel used star counts to map out the Milky Way. He cataloged a ... at the time the largest in the world. He began taking photographic ...