Some of the biggest galaxies in the universe stopped making stars billions of years ago, and even today, no one fully understands why. This mystery is puzzling because many of these galaxies still ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively expel, surrounding material. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Astronomers are drawing attention to a Christmas Tree-shaped cluster of stars glowing inside one of the Milky Way’s most active stellar nurseries. Known as the Cosmic Christmas Tree, the cluster sits ...

Researchers from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan have unveiled new insights into ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to conduct the Galactic Plane Survey to map the Milky Way’s structure and examine star formation across the galaxy. The survey, Roman’s first ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...

Code Geass: Aspar the Star Chaser is the latest installment to the long-running series Code Geass, and was announced as one of the projects in the series dedicated to its twenty-first anniversary. The ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have released a beautiful new image of part of N159, a massive star-forming cloud located about 160,000 light-years away in the constellation of ...

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery about NGC 6789, an isolated dwarf galaxy located 12 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. Despite residing in the Local Void—one of the ...

About 12 million light years away lies an impossible galaxy. Over the last 600 million years, its core has been forming new stars – but there is no apparent source for the fuel that has fed that star ...