A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Space has always captured human curiosity. Whether it's vastness, mystery or its planetary bodies. Many individuals, at some ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered the largest-scale structure in the known ... across which is over 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, according to a report in Live Science.

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda ...

Astronomers have identified what could be the largest structure ever observed in the known universe ... Spanning approximately 1.3 billion light-years—over 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way—it ...

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 ...