For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full history of a galaxy outside the Milky Way using chemical clues. By ...

A new study has found that a hidden bias in galaxy models can skew gravitational-wave measurements of how fast the universe is expanding. That finding complicates one of astronomy’s most promising ...

As speculation continues to run rampant that Ahsoka Season 2 will establish Abeloth as the Star Wars franchise's new big bad, ...

While scientists discovered the Cosmic Vine using the James Webb Space Telescope, they have yet to find a string of galaxies ...

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

Meet Stevenson 218, the largest known star in the universe. This red supergiant is so massive it could engulf our entire ...

For over 10 years, an international team of astronomers have been scanning the sky with a special telescope called the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), which sees the world through radio waves – a kind of ...

A rare star reveals how the Universe's first stars exploded, helping explain the Milky Way’s outer halo and its unusual ...

Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C.

Explore the 25 Most Massive Objects in the Universe, from supermassive black holes to galaxy walls. Uncover the cosmic giants shaping our cosmos. Discover ...

It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star.

The stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud aren’t behaving the way they should. A cataclysmic collision with another nearby ...