Encounter Blew Away Most of Smaller Galaxy's Gaseous Halo In a dramatic tale of survival captured by the Hubble Space ...

Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I’ve been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has detected "a scar imprinted on the surface" of white dwarf star ...

Adam Beardsley of Winona State University recently received a $500,000 grant to design an observatory to studio radio waves ...

Astronomers have discovered two galaxies that are perfectly aligned, allowing their combined gravitational pull to act as a compound lens.

It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...

The professor of astronomy and planetary sciences at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), who won this year’s Shaw ...

New observations suggest that the universe’s oldest galaxies are brighter than expected. Here's why this may be a big deal.

“The discovery meant that these galaxies [had to be] older than the age of the universe, which is physically impossible,” ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered three massive galaxies from the early universe, revealing ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...

The LMC is a dwarf galaxy, relatively close to the Earth (in galactic terms) at around 160,000 light years away. That may ...