Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.

The Andromeda galaxy, our nearest major galactic neighbor and one of the most iconic objects in the night sky, has captivated ...

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...

You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round ...

Scientists Identify the Oldest Material on Earth in a Meteorite, Stunned to Find It Predates the Sun Scientists analyzed ...

In 2018, a galaxy about 270 million light-years away from Earth exhibited a major increase in activity. It quieted down again ...

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...

The most powerful telescope ever put into space has made a historic discovery. The most powerful telescope to be launched ...

According to a new study, the carbon atoms that form part of all life on Earth may have traveled outside the galaxy first.

Scientists recently discovered that the giant 'conveyer belt' currents that push star-forged material out of our galaxy and pull it back in can also transport carbon atoms. That means that a good deal ...

Some in the press have called the display the Christmas Lights’ Galaxy because the developing ... a similar emotion when they view the earth from the unique perspective of a space capsule.

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