The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way.

The array is located less than 10 km southeast of the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) existing Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert. © CTAO The European Commission today established the ...

Researchers have unveiled a cosmic cycle where carbon, created in the explosions of stars, travels through space via a ...

Uncover the mystery of Omega Centauri: a stellar-mass black hole is responsible for the fast movement of nearly ten million ...

The cutting-edge observatory is charged with seeing some of the earliest visible light, and the recent image achieves a new ...

Astronomers have discovered 44 new stars in a distant galaxy using the James Webb Space Telescope and gravitational lensing.

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...

The tidal tail, which extends an impressive 1.27 million light-years from NGC 3785, is a result of gravitational interactions between this galaxy and a neighboring one.

Luck has recently led to the discovery of several individual stars in extremely distant galaxies. 44 in a single galaxy, ...

ISRO achieves a breakthrough in space agriculture as cowpea seeds germinate aboard PSLV-C60's POEM-4 platform, paving the way ...

Physicists have proposed a solution to a long-standing puzzle surrounding the GD-1 stellar stream, one of the most well-studied streams within the galactic halo of the Milky Way.

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.