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

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

An accidental discovery by a team of astronomers has upended existing theories about how galaxies formed in the early ...

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 ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

With the first large dataset from the Euclid space telescope, researchers discover 26 million galaxies and the detailed ...

As part of its local mall activations for the Galaxcy S25 series, Samsung has up to R100 000 in prizes up for grabs.

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called Sagittarius A*). Supermassive black holes are the densest objects in the ...

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery that challenges current theories of galaxy formation. A colossal disk-shaped galaxy, nicknamed the "Big Wheel," has been found just two billion years after ...

The largest-ever three-dimensional map of the cosmos, plotting out some 15 million celestial objects, could help reveal the ultimate fate of the universe. Astrophysicists know that the universe is ...

New data from a satellite one million miles from Earth has helped UK scientists shed light on how mysterious forces shaped ...