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

From a window on the International Space Station, astronauts have captured a rare view of a nearby galaxy caught in the act ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral structure. But while it is impossible to get a full ...

(CN) — A nearby galaxy may be falling apart, and its larger neighbor could be the reason why. Astronomers studying the Small Magellanic Cloud — a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from Earth — ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the picturesque spiral galaxy NGC 4941, which lies about 67 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo (The Maiden). Because this ...

Webb reveals a bridge of stars linking two nearby dwarf galaxies, offering a look at how gravity reshapes galaxies and sparks ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A bright star located about 10,000 light-years from Earth overlaps with the bright core of a more ...

Image of the irregular dwarf galaxy Sextans A, located at a distance of about 4 million light years from us, towards the edge of the Local Group, captured by the VST (VLT Survey Telescope), an Italian ...

This handout provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a detailed, thousand-colour image of the Sculptor Galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). (ESO ...

Located some 97.5 million light years away, NGC 1266 (also known as PGC 12131) is a nearby lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus. It is a quenching, early-type galaxy with a half-light ...