NGC 1786’s mixed-age stars suggest globular clusters aren’t one-generation wonders, offering fresh clues to galaxy formation far beyond the Milky Way.

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Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...

Our Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than we've detected so far. They're just too faint to be seen.

A massive, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of today's NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed the “Cosmic Owl,” a rare structure of two colliding ring galaxies.

Scientists predict up to 100 invisible galaxies may orbit the Milky Way, hiding just beyond our current detection limits.

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

So asking, " Where's the center of the universe? " is somewhat like asking, "Where's the center of the balloon's surface?” ...

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

Nancy Ann Berry Nancy Ann Darby (Berry) caught a comet's tail at high noon on the Fourth of July 2025 and has been soaring through the galaxies since. Nancy, who ...