Particular stars called Cepheid variables allow astronomers to determine distance, and Hubble spotted one of these within M31 ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

As ancient and vast as the Universe is, it seems like some alien race arose in the galaxy long before us, but who rose before ...

Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

A top a mountain in Chile, where the days are dry and nights are clear, a team of scientists and engineers is preparing for ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Researchers say the signal originates from Relay 2, a communication satellite launched in 1964 and ceased functioning in 1967 ...