The discovery of a colossal black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a dwarf galaxy that has orbited the Milky Way for billions of years – has both shocked and fascinated the global scientific ...

Radio astronomy opens a window onto the invisible universe. While our eyes can detect visible light, countless objects in ...

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...

ORCs are vast, faint rings of radio energy that surround galaxies and can be detected only in radio wavelengths of the ...

Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.

Astronomers have identified the most pristine star ever observed, located in the Milky Way's halo. This ancient star, with ...

A Milky Way doppleganger discovered in the early universe suggests some key physical ingredient is missing from cosmological models. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Not all stars are created equally. Astronomers believe that the first stars to form after the Big Bang were mostly made of ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

Cosmologists may have to rethink galaxy evolution theories as more mature and orderly galaxies are found in the early universe. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Joseph Olmsted (STScI) illustration Imagine ...

Astronomers have identified what could be the largest structure ever observed in the known universe—a vast network of galaxy clusters and superclusters containing an astonishing 200 quadrillion solar ...