A century ago, a star in Andromeda named V1 launched a revolution in astronomy, revealing its true immensity and the origin ...

Astronomers might just have peered back to the dawn of starlight-not in a time machine, but through a cosmic magnifying glass ...

The Roman telescope will track 100,000 cosmic explosions, revealing how the early universe expanded and offering new clues ...

In a significant stride for cosmic evolution studies, astronomers have unveiled a galaxy that is churning out stars at a ...

Star clusters are collections of thousands to millions of stars bound together by gravity — and many can be observed in the night sky with binoculars or a small telescope. One notable example is ω ...

Galaxies in the universe trace patterns on very large scales; there are large empty regions (called “voids”) and dense regions where the galaxies exist. This distribution is called the cosmic web. The ...

There is a large suite of scientific evidence that supports the picture of the expanding Universe and the Big Bang, complete with dark energy. The distant galaxies are moving away from us faster today ...