Our understanding of the universe begins with the Big Bang, a moment in time where the universe began expanding into what we ...

Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 ...

The only place that's likely to happen is at the very center of our galaxy. And, for a while, there was an excess of ...

As we've more precisely studied the stars in our galaxy through various sky surveys, we've seen variations within these broad categories. For population II stars, a recent study has shown two ...

Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...

A new map reveals the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, including a wave of stars disturbed by a small galaxy on a collision course with our own. Data collected from the European Space Agency’s ...

Oh my stars. ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet delivered some stunning space views full of stars as seen from the ISS. ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet "You always tend to focus on Earth when you take pictures ...

Some of the twinkling stars that spangle Earth’s skies are relics from the earliest beginnings of the Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have discovered. Formed within a few billion years of the big ...

Several stars that appeared to have formed 12 to 13 billion years ago were spotted in the Milky Way halo—basically, our galaxy's suburbs.

Astronomers estimate that perhaps 50 stars have exploded in our galaxy during the last millennium—one roughly every two decades. But the 1054 supernova is one of just five stellar detonations ...

A new map reveals the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy, including a wave of stars disturbed by a small galaxy on a collision course with our own. Data collected from the European Space Agency’s ...