In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will ...

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

The discovery of thousands more galaxies with stars ringing their main disks could help astronomers study galactic evolution ...

Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual "ingredients," raising ...

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic ...

Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, but there are ways for stars to escape into intergalactic space.

A potential new type of celestial object has all the makings of a normal small galaxy. It’s rich with the same hydrogen gas ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old ...

Astronomers report how a "death by a thousand blows" caused a galaxy in the early universe to stop forming stars, making it ...

Astronomers have identified the largest known single spinning structure within the cosmic web, a filament approximately 117,000 light-years across and 5.5 million light-years long, situated 424 ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

Astronomers combined data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory to create a stunning new image of two merging spiral ...