On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

NGC 6355 has been imaged using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The globular cluster of stars lies 50,000 light-years away.

is approximately 2.5 million light-years from the earth and the nearest galaxy to the milky way that is moving towards it at a speed of 68 miles per second. The observations pointed out the fact that ...

"What in the Milky Way caused these small, lower-mass satellites to have their star formation quenched?" The findings suggest our galaxy's evolutionary history is strikingly different, setting it ...

The turbulent gas surrounding the Milky Way’s disc is either swept into the surrounding medium or cools and falls back onto ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and Milky-Way-like galaxy yet. The disc galaxy was seen as it was just 700 ...

Shapley had recently shown the Milky Way to be larger than previously ... then decreasing as it passes you. When a galaxy is moving away from Earth, features of the spectrum known as absorption ...

“For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way,” astrophysicist Keiichi Ohnaka said, according to the European Southern ...

One hundred years ago, on November 23, 1924, a groundbreaking discovery reshaped our understanding of the universe. A small ...

But all of the stars that we have seen in detail are contained within the roughly 100,000 light-year span of our Milky Way galaxy. That is, until now, as astronomers recently observed a star ...