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

"Even though it's the first time we've seen a galaxy like this, we think that there could be many more out there." ...

The night sky often feels calm, yet the early universe tells a very different story. A newly studied ancient galaxy, seen as ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

The Andromeda galaxy helped Edwin Hubble settle a great debate in astronomy. Stocktrek Images via Getty Images A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

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

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...

When we think about orbits, we usually picture the Earth zooming around the sun. But does the sun just sit there? Or is it on its own journey? I asked my friend Guy Worthey. He’s a space scientist at ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed. When you purchase through ...

A cosmic train wreck may be looming in our future. The Andromeda galaxy, a near twin of our Milky Way, is barreling toward us. You can already see it coming if you know where to look—Andromeda’s great ...