Measuring distances across the universe is much more challenging than measuring distances on Earth. Is a brighter star closer ...
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
Over 40 stars in a galaxy billions of light-years away were photographed, offering a glimpse into an era when the universe ...
Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...
Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...
Scientists are keen to get to the bottom of the dark matter puzzle because this phenomenon accounts for the vast majority of ...
A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. Astronomers have discovered a rare ...
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, cosmic 'ghost towns,' offer new insights into the early universe and star formation.
Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable star in the Andromeda galaxy in 1923 revealed that the universe extends far beyond the Milky Way, fundamentally altering our understanding of the cosmos.
Ohio State and Notre Dame bring big brands, with a Midwest mindset, to Monday's national championship game in Atlanta. Not ...