A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array — a group of dozens of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert and the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

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Astronomers have used near-infrared light to explore the extreme forces behind the eruption of LMC68, a recurrent nova in the ...

"I was astonished by the unexpected results because they opened a new view on the first phases of galaxy evolution." ...

Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy, a star-scape beaming light just 300 million years after the Big ...

The latest discovery marks the furthest detection of oxygen ever made and defies what we thought about how galaxies formed in the early universe.

Using the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and additional data from the Atacama Pathfinder ...

An accidental discovery by a team of astronomers has upended existing theories about how galaxies formed in the early ...

Though tiny, this newfound satellite galaxy around M31 offers big lessons — and questions — about how galaxies evolve.