Astronomers from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have spotted a cluster of hydrogen clouds bridging the space between two nearby galaxies, Andromeda and Triangulum...Read More.

A group of astronomers has discovered the "most prolific star factory in the Universe." The star factory is in a galaxy so far away that the astronomers see it as it was when the Universe was only six percent of its current age...Read More.

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors, is so bright that it can be seen by the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere and near the equator...Read More.

According to a news release from the European Space Agency, a black hole in galaxy NGC 4845 has eaten a brown dwarf or a "super Jupiter" that wandered too close...Read More.

One of the most enduring mysterious in astrophysics is the question of how spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way get and maintain their characteristic arms...Read More.

According to a newly published study, massive galaxies began birthing stars soon after the Big Bang, far earlier than astronomers thought. The study, published in this month's edition of Nature, finds galaxies began producing stars as early as 1 billion years after the Big Bang...Read More.

A highly unusual new study has uncovered a surprising fact: nocturnal dung beetles use the distant glow of the Milky Way to guide their path as they roll balls of excrement...Read More.

If Florida manatees could survive living in space, one would probably be forgiven for mistaking the image of a newly discovered star system for exactly that...Read More.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted hidden treasure in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way galaxy...Read More.

A jaw-dropping photo released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a smoke-black space cloud where new stars are being birthed, along with a cluster of brilliant stars that have already left their dusty stellar nursery...Read More.