"The Sculptor Galaxy is in a sweet spot. It is close enough that we can resolve its internal structure, but at the same time ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released its first images, captured using the world’s largest digital camera, kicking off a 10-year mission to explore the changing universe in stunning detail.

The image can not only be zoomed in to study regions where stars form at the same scale of an individual star, but also zoomed out to study the entire galaxy.

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of the Sculptor Galaxy, revealing hundreds of previously unseen celestial ...

The researchers observed the Sculptor Galaxy for over 50 hours with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument ...

What can the Cosmic Dawn, which is when scientists hypothesize the first galaxies and stars formed after the Big Bang, teach scientists about the formation | Space ...

Scientists have discovered that something is making cosmic distance markers appear much farther away than they should be.

The arrival of those photons—many from ancient stars and galaxies and which had been travelling across the universe for ...

In the vast darkness of the early universe, a spiral of light named Zhúlóng offers a new glimpse into cosmic history. This ...

NGC 4449 is a dwarf galaxy turned stellar powerhouse, dazzling astronomers with its explosive star-forming activity and rich ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...