Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

A galaxy in a practically empty area of the universe seems to be impossibly forming stars, and new observations have only deepened the puzzle ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

The potential finds could be contributing to some of the faintest light we can see in the universe, say researchers.

For decades, scientists engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have probed the galaxy for signs of artificial radio transmissions. Beginning with Project Ozma in 1960, ...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending assumptions that it was dominated by dark matter ...