This particular star system, dubbed Loki after the Norse god of trickery, was consumed by our own solar system billions of ...

Astronomers released new images this week of the Milky Way that offer an unprecedented look at an enormous slice of the galaxy, complete with star clusters, clouds of cosmic dust and the supermassive ...

To find the end of the Milky Way, scientists looked to the outermost star-formation site, roughly 40,000 light-years from the ...

Messier 104, nicknamed the Sombrero Galaxy, is a popular target for amateur observing and astronomical research. Its ...

This galaxy, also known as Messier 104, gets its nickname from its central bulge and outer dust trail, which give it a ...

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Scientists have detected a record-breaking radio signal from atomic hydrogen in a very distant galaxy. The galaxy that the signal originated from is believed to have come from a galaxy at redshift z=1 ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy -- shot ...

The Sombrero galaxy and its glowing halo of stars have never looked this good. The latest photo of the popular hat-shaped ...

Sci-fi tends to paint the edge of our galaxy as a desolate backwater, but in one early galaxy, the galactic rim is the bright, bustling center of activity, and the core is the aging backwater. The ...

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