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

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

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 ...

The James Webb Telescope has mapped an egg-shaped atmosphere on a distant giant planet, revealing distortions caused by ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory discovered the dwarf galaxy Aquarius IV and the star cluster Rubin-GC1 in preliminary ...

Billions of years from now, the sun is expected to run out of fuel and greatly expand into what is called a red giant, ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already uncovered two previously unknown companions of the Milky Way using preliminary observations covering just 7% of the night sky. The discoveries include an ...

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

A figure in red trudges across a blanket of white. Snow squeaks under the scientist's feet, too dry to be slick or soft. Only ...

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

Astronaut Don Pettit shared a Milky Way photo from the ISS showing stars, a red airglow band, and colourful light streaks ...

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