Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual "ingredients," raising ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

Andromeda and the Milky Way merge. NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger Share Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d ...

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

NASA has unveiled a breathtaking new infrared map of the Universe from its SPHEREx mission, offering fresh insight into ...

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic evolution.

Unveiling the Latest Spacenews Magazine Discoveries This issue of Spacenews Magazine is packed with some seriously cool ...

Physicists have unveiled a new way to simulate a mysterious form of dark matter that can collide with itself but not with ...

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the Milky Way galaxy, such as its gravitational potential and the distribution of ...