If the Large Magellanic Cloud were not quite so massive, the Milky Way would have robbed it of any opportunity to form new ...

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

For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered” planets around a nearby star, only to retract the claims. But the latest ...

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

Most of us see 5 or 6 stars in the Pleiades, a.k.a. the Seven Sisters, star cluster. But there are a whole lot more. The ...

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 ...