NASA's SPHEREx is exploring the galaxies to answer the question of where we all come from while sending back jaw-dropping ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is considered a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It's actually visible to the naked eye ...

An analysis of the afterglow of the big bang sheds light on how black holes distribute mass in the universe, and why some ...

Hubble captured a breathtaking view of NGC 6000, a spiral galaxy where blue newborn stars shine beside golden, aging ones.

The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

A West Texas woman saw something unusual on a recent morning, a massive parachute drifting slowly across the sky ...

Not all stars are created equally. Astronomers believe that the first stars to form after the Big Bang were mostly made of ...

On the open expanses of Chile's high-altitude Atacama desert, bright stars pierce an ink-black firmament, a lure for stargazers looking for wonder and astronomers seeking signs of life on distant ...

Astronomers using NASA data have found seven stars in our galaxy emitting unexplained infrared radiation, a potential ...

A West Texas woman saw something unusual on a recent morning, a massive parachute drifting slowly across the sky.