Rare ultra-faint dwarf galaxies beyond the influence of other galaxies show evidence that star formation was stifled long ago ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...

The Milky Way and other nearby galaxies appeared to be moving at about 600 km/s towards a point in space that lies beyond the Milky Way’s plane, in the direction of the constellations Triangulum ...

A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark universe.

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the unusual ... "We have a measurement like this for only three other galaxies — all isolated from the Milky Way — and they all show ...

Galaxies, including our Milky Way Galaxy, grow in size by gobbling up smaller galaxies that happen to come near them as they travel in space ... said Fielder. In other words, the experts have ...

Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor ... McQuinn and other members of the research team studied Leo P through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a space-based apparatus that features ...

Hubble Space Telescope images of V1 (inset), which ... born in a time before we knew other galaxies existed. "This is really a lesson of how much things have changed and how discoveries can ...

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.

Just when you think you understand an astrophysical phenomenon, the universe turns around and surprises us,’ says scientist involved ...