The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting ...

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system ...

Star clusters are formed when gravity pulls young stars together, forcing them to orbit each other. A star cluster can ...

"We are able to measure the local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time." ...

Don Pettit, a NASA astronaut currently aboard the International Space Station, uses his camera to capture stunning images of ...

A celestial body is any natural object outside Earth's atmosphere. This includes stars, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, dwarf planets and meteoroids.

At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton telescope have made an unexpected discovery—two supernova remnants ...

The Tarantula Nebula is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star-forming region within a nearby satellite ...

NASA has released new cosmic images captured by the Hubble and James Webb telescopes. The images feature stellar phenomena ...