"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...
Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...
A team of astronomers recently uncovered an exceptionally small and faint dwarf galaxy located approximately 3 million ...
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.
A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we ...
Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.