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 ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon a pair of massive black holes in a distant galaxy that are triggering unusual bursts of light. These bright emissions, which appear to peak on a regular cycle, may be ...

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 ...

Black holes don't have many identifying features. They come in one color (black) and one shape (spherical). The main ...