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 ...

Need new artwork in your home? How about one that you build yourself? LEGO’s Art lineup has some really cool sets that are ...

Astronomers have determined that VVV CL001, a metal-poor globular cluster near the center of the Milky Way, is about 13.4 ...

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

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

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

The Milky Way's disc thinned in two stages at different rates. The precise age of the stars reveals the timing of this transition and how it is explained.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun delivering its first scientific results. Among them is the discovery of new Milky Way ...

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 working mostly in Chile dated VVV CL001, a faint globular cluster buried behind dust near the galactic center, at ...

Around a dead star in the Milky Way, astronomers suspect a Jupiter-like world formed from stellar ashes and is possibly ...