Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way's ...

Using the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and additional data from the Atacama Pathfinder ...

Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

For over a century, astronomers have marveled at the beauty and complexity of spiral galaxies, which feature arms covered in ...

A discovery made by a team led by researchers at the University of Michigan tugs at the seams of some key cosmic lessons we ...

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous spiral galaxy bursting with new star formation.

Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy, a star-scape beaming light just 300 million years after the Big ...

Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.

U.S. health officials are tracking a rise in injuries tied to the misuse of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, including some ...