Scientists may have finally hit upon the possible mysterious sources that have pumped heat and kept alive the fiery hot gas ...

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

Scientists have finally imaged a star outside of the Milky Way for the first time. Here's what it looks like and how they did ...

The star, situated in a galaxy orbiting our own tens of thousands of light-years away, may be on the verge of a spectacular ...

Astronomers have taken a close-up photo of a star outside our own galaxy, the Milky Way, for the first time, the European ...

WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel. Through this ...

Edwin Hubble's revelation in 1924 that the Andromeda Nebula was, in fact, an 'island universe,' was a pivotal moment in our ...

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.

"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." ...

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

Scientists announced Thursday that they had taken the first zoomed-in image of a dying star beyond our galaxy. The star is ...

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