While astronomers have taken about two dozen zoomed-in images of stars in our galaxy, unveiling their properties, countless other stars dwell within other galaxies, so far away that observing even one ...

Scientists announced Thursday that they had taken the first zoomed-in image of a dying star beyond our galaxy. The star is ...

The star — known as WOH G64 — is located 160,000 light years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.

Scientists at the European Southern Observatory have revealed a photograph showing a close-up image of star WHO G64, a red supergiant.

For the first time, astronomers have captured a close-up image of a dying star beyond our Milky Way. This milestone, achieved by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer ...

Distant, ancient galaxies are giving scientists more hints that a mysterious force called dark energy may not be what they ...

Our best view yet of the material linking clusters of galaxies may have pinpointed some 20 percent of the universe’s missing ...

The Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered ...

Astronomers have snapped the first detailed close-up image of a star outside the Milky Way, and what they found is amazing.

Now, a new study published Nov. 11 in Nature Astronomy has revisited the Voyager 2 data and discovered that Uranus was ...

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

This is perhaps best encapsulated in a Walt Whitman poem titled “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.” The narrator describes ...