A spiral galaxy roughly 10 million light-years from Earth is offering astronomers a rare glimpse into the forces that shape ...

Simulations suggest the faintest galaxies near the Milky Way share one iron level because a single giant first star exploded in each.

Hubble has released a new image of Messier 30, known as M30, a globular cluster about 27,500 light-years away in the constellation Capricornus. NASA published the picture on Nov. 5 alongside a note ...

Preview data from the recently completed NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile point to a wave of discoveries that may ...

Astronomers using early data from Rubin Observatory have identified two previously hidden companions of the Milky Way. One is ...

Hydrogen cyanide was crucial for early Earth chemistry. A new study says comets almost certainly didn’t deliver it like we’d previously thought.

Can you still see the Milky Way from your city? An analysis of 50 Indian cities reveals that only six have skies dark enough ...

A new study claims that the VVV CL001 cluster is around 13.4 billion years old, which could make it the oldest star cluster ...

Hubble reveals a mystery in nearby dwarf galaxies, where powerful stellar explosions appear to have swept away much of their ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. What is below Earth, since space is present in ...

One of NASA’s premier space telescopes plunged to Earth on Wednesday, ending its 22-year investigation of the universe’s ...