Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small ...

In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope peers into the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax, located ...

Initially, the astronomer who first made note of this fuzzy-looking glowing cluster thought it might be a nebula. But it’s ...

New simulation of magnetic turbulence helps scientists study star formation, space weather, and the forces shaping our galaxy ...

Astronomers have developed a computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the ...

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.

Most of the objects you see when you look up at the night sky are stars in our own galaxy, which we can map. We can see a good portion of the Milky Way in the night sky as well, and from this ...

W hen astronomers first spotted Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1, it caused a little excitement. The group of stars at the edge of the Milky Way, not adding up to much more than 16 solar masses, appeared to be ...

According to the ESA, less than one times the mass of our sun is converted into stars each year in the galaxy's knotted, dusty disc. In fact, even Messier 104's central supermassive black hole ...

Researchers have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, are moving in opposing directions along two distinct axes. They found that stars closer ...

Astronomers have described the first measurements of plasma layers within an interstellar shock wave that surrounds a pulsar.