Learn how many stars there are in the Milky Way, and how astronomers count them.

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

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

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

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 ...

HD 140283, better known as the Methuselah star, is around 200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Libra. It is ...

Astronomers have observed a primeval star that they believe to be the most “pristine” object in the universe. A team led by ...

Astronomers have discovered the most pristine star ever observed, offering insights into the universe's earliest moments and ...

A newly discovered odd radio circle in space could serve as a time capsule for the violent events that shape galaxies.

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