More than 99% of Americans live under skies polluted by light. But dark skies above the Grand Canyon and 147 other spots ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Globular clusters, which are much larger and denser than open clusters, containing several thousand to millions of stars all formed from a shared ...

For years, scientists have used the Milky Way as a model for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. But new research ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 4694, a galaxy that possesses unusual properties that complicate its ...

Ohnaka and his team found an egg-shaped shell of dust and gas surrounding WOH G64 - a dying star about 160,000 light-years ...

For the first time ever, a team of astronomers has successfully captured a "zoomed-in" image of a star outside of our own Milky Way Galaxy. The newly imaged dying star, designated WOH G64, is about 2, ...

Astronomers have snapped the first detailed close-up image of a star outside the Milky Way, and what they found is amazing.

A new class of galaxies, nicknamed UFOs—short for Ultra-red Flattened Objects—has been discovered by astrophysicists led by ...

An international team of scientists from India and the US have decoded the mysterious source behind fiery hot gas around the ...

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

Scientists at the Raman Research Institute (RRI), in collaboration with IIT-Palakkad and Ohio State University, have identified a potential source behind the super-hot gas detected around the Milky ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy ripping through galactic debris left by multiple collisions at a dangerous "cosmic ...