Scientists may have finally hit upon the possible mysterious sources that have pumped heat and kept alive the fiery hot gas ...

Scientists have finally imaged a star outside of the Milky Way for the first time. Here's what it looks like and how they did ...

On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

Astronomers have taken a close-up photo of a star outside our own galaxy, the Milky Way, for the first time, the European ...

The star, situated in a galaxy orbiting our own tens of thousands of light-years away, may be on the verge of a spectacular ...

WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel. Through this ...

Edwin Hubble's revelation in 1924 that the Andromeda Nebula was, in fact, an 'island universe,' was a pivotal moment in our ...

"For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way." ...

Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years ...

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.

Scientists announced Thursday that they had taken the first zoomed-in image of a dying star beyond our galaxy. The star is ...

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