A star cluster concealed behind thick clouds of dust near the Milky Way’s center may be 13.4 billion years old, placing it ...

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

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 ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image provides a lesson in galactic history. The sparkling collection of stars is named ...

Our cosmic neighbourhood is full of surprises, some you cannot even imagine. In a paper published on Monday in The ...

A globular cluster near the center of the Galaxy is hidden behind dense dust, and its age may force astronomers to reconsider ...

Earth have between just 4% and 25% of the oxygen that their stars are known to have produced. Scientists are not sure where ...

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

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

A Hubble-based census of 37 nearby dwarf galaxies finds they hold on average just 11% of the oxygen their own stars forged, and as little as 4%. Supernova winds ...

Galactic archaeologists are using precise measures and larger sample sizes afforded by new missions to tease apart minute differences between groups of stars, revealing the history of the Milky Way ...

Using Hubble in a new observing configuration, the team also identified a previously unseen warp in the dust halo surrounding Beta Pictoris. The distortion may result from the gravitational influence ...