Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...

Astronomers from the University of Arizona have uncovered astonishing details about a galaxy that existed when the universe ...

Researchers have identified a galaxy that existed when the universe was less than 300 million years old. This galaxy, known ...

University of Arizona astronomers have learned more about a surprisingly mature galaxy that existed when the universe was ...

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV—located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the ...

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million ...

An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting ...

Water was present just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang, according to a new study, shaking up the timeline ...