This time, the focus is on the remains of a star that exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of them orbit, and now this lopsidedness. It just goes to show that sometimes it ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

Our solar system exists in one of the Milky Way's smaller spiral arms — the Orion-Cygnus arm — which radiates out from the center of the galaxy. While we can use our vantage point to view ...

The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future.

Some three times the size of our Milky Way, the galaxy lies nearly a billion ... Were a jet to be pointed in the direction of our solar system, it could potentially strip away planetary ...

Earth" planet was discovered by researchers. It is not believed these planets are more common than previously thought.

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

This wreckage has a ring-like structure that is around 26 light-years in diameter — that's wide enough to fit the entire solar system across ... in the LMC and the Milky Way.