Earth is not only orbiting the Sun it is also traveling through the Milky Way on an enormous galactic journey. In this video ...

It's a new window into the first star explosions.

Galaxy next door to us is ‘transforming’ and changing our understanding of space - The ‘Small Magellanic Cloud’ does not look like other galaxies – and researchers might have worked out why ...

Recent reports highlight a possible meteor landing near Cleveland with sights and sounds witnessed miles away. In another cosmic discovery, astronomers find a fiery planet with a magma ocean and a ...

Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered one of the most primitive stars in terms of chemical composition — a second-generation object formed immediately after the first stars of the ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, scientists have found. The discovery, made in two separate pieces of research, could relieve one of the most troubling ...

Astronomers believe that there have been three generations of stars in the universe. The first, which are yet to be seen directly, were made of just hydrogen and helium. The Sun is among the last ones ...

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just ...

They discovered that the host galaxy is incredibly massive — weighing in at over 40 billion times the mass of our Sun — and deeply obscured. The James Webb Space Telescope, which can peer through gas ...

Astronomers have identified a star called PicII-503 inside the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Pictor II, and its chemical ...