In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of researchers led by Kristen McQuinn, a scientist at the Space ...

In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

This colorful view of N79 centers on a star-forming molecular cloud complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Astronomers have struggled with finding ultra-faint dwarf galaxies far enough from the Milky Way's influence, making these ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most complex space observatory that serves thousands of astronomers ...

"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...

"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

Using the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), astronomers from Italy and Germany have observed a group of galaxies designated NGC ...