A group of international scientists discovered three ultra-massive “Red Monster” galaxies capable of forming their own stars ...

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 ...

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

This swath of dust, which blocks out light from the bright nebula Gum 55 behind it, is known as the Dark Wolf Nebula.

Scientists have taken a close-up picture of a star apparently in its death throes, surrounded by gas and dust as it heads ...

It's not a void at all, but rather a concentration of material known as a dark nebula, which neither reflects nor emits ...

This image of the Milky Way galaxy was captured by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, in collaboration with NASA. This image of the Milky Way, created by NASA ...

Edwin Hubble, a renowned astronomer, revolutionized our understanding of the universe. He proved the existence of galaxies ...

Clearly, the Andromeda Nebula was a system of stars quite separate from the Milky Way, and in many ways comparable to it. From this simple observation, soon repeated for other starry nebulae ...

One of the greatest astronomer's, who changed our entire understanding of the universe, was born 135 years ago today ...

Exploding with color, a nearby stellar nursery cries to life. The orange, yellow and blue image features the interstellar ...

A minority view, however, held that the Milky Way was only one "island" of stars, gas, and dust, and that there were other such islands beyond. An important clue to which perspective was right seemed ...