Edwin Hubble's revelation in 1924 that the Andromeda Nebula was, in fact, an 'island universe,' was a pivotal moment in our ...

Astronomers have long used the Milky Way as a benchmark for studying galaxy formation and evolution, assuming that its ...

Astronomers have taken a zoomed-in photo of a star outside the Milky Way for the first time, the European Southern Observatory announced in a statement Thursday.

"For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way." ...

The star, situated in a galaxy orbiting our own tens of thousands of light-years away, may be on the verge of a spectacular ...

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

Space: A huge success for astronomers as they captured an extreme close-up image of the dying star, WOH G64, which is ...

Scientists have finally imaged a star outside of the Milky Way for the first time. Here's what it looks like and how they did ...

"For the first time, we have succeeded in taking a zoomed-in image of a dying star in a galaxy outside our own Milky Way." Astronomers have captured a "zoomed-in" image of a star outside the Milky ...

The star, WOH G64, is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, approximately 160,000 light-years away. "This is the first time we actually have a sharp image of a star ...

Much of the mass in the universe lies not in stars or galaxies, but in the space between them, known as the intergalactic ...

A quasar is an exceptionally bright and uncommon supermassive black hole found at the core of a galaxy. NASA researchers have ...