The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

This vast reservoir of cool molecular gas is found in the protocluster known as ... size to the Andromeda galaxy, one of our nearest neighbors. "However, this system is forming stars at a rate ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

"We were surprised by the streams of light that were visible near the center of the galaxies, as nothing similar has been observed in the past." ...

Support independent science journalism. Gain access to all articles, ad-free browsing, exclusive content, The Vault, and ...

Find Small Magellanic Cloud Latest News, Videos & Pictures on Small Magellanic Cloud and see latest updates, news, information from NDTV.COM. Explore more on Small Magellanic Cloud.

The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it—the flickering ... The rate of ...

Looking for a really big story, I naturally headed for "Galaxies in Collision." Bradley Whitmore of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore brought us up to speed. We've known for a ...

An extreme protocluster gathering of infant galaxies is hiding a vast cosmic fuel tank that is powering 400 million years of intense star formation.

Travel experts have named the National Park among the top destinations in the UK for nature lovers to explore, as well as the ...