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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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Good morning, this is Abel. Today's main story is the first close-up image taken by the European probe Hera of the binary ...

Discover how Webb's vivid image of N159 offers scientists a time machine to the universe's first light, revealing star ...

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

A magnetic dead star 860 light-years away is acting like a 'cosmic propeller', throwing its companion’s material back into ...

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