The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

A planet in a perpendicular orbit around 2 brown dwarfs. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found an ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

We're actually doing it all the time. We live on a rotating planet, that orbits a star, that moves around a galaxy, that rockets through the universe constantly. But how fast are we moving ...

A team of researchers at Nagoya University has discovered evidence that the Small Magellanic Cloud is potentially being torn ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday. Located about 120 light years away, the exoplanet appears to take ...

Model image of what our home galaxy, the Milky Way ... the crew sent Gaia — now moved into its retirement orbit around the sun, a final word. Brown's message was: "Farewell to an amazing ...

Looking for a really big story, I naturally headed for "Galaxies in Collision." Bradley Whitmore of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore brought us up to speed. We've known for a ...

They orbit the Milky Way at a distance of about ... Confirming if a nearby dwarf galaxy is a Milky Way satellite involves ...

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal that ...

This "retirement orbit" will make sure the spacecraft will ... at the Milky Way's heart thought to have formed around the galaxy's birth more than 12 billion years ago. According to astronomers ...