"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

The findings reveal unusual chemical signatures and offer new insights into the behavior of novas beyond the Milky Way.

A team of Japanese researchers has harnessed the power of AI to uncover hidden structures in our galaxy. Using deep learning ...

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

blast of X-rays coming from within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a galaxy that orbits the Milky Way from roughly 160,000 light-years away. "Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and ...

Though tiny, this newfound satellite galaxy around M31 offers big lessons — and questions — about how galaxies evolve.

Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

The cosmos has a way of keeping astronomers on their toes. Just beyond the edges of the Andromeda galaxy, researchers have identified the tiniest galaxy ever ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...