Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

The Andromeda galaxy, our closest spiral neighbor to the Milky Way, becomes prominently visible in the night sky during ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...

Learn how many stars there are in the Milky Way, and how astronomers count them.

The center of the Milky Way is super bright because it’s packed with a lot of stars and a supermassive black hole. That black hole, called Sagittarius A*, is millions of times bigger than our sun! It ...

The nearby satellite galaxy M32 can also be seen as a bright ball on the upper edge of Andromeda's disk while the milky ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

On a cool night in August, more than 100 people gathered in a dark corner on Frisco Main Street. The lights at the Frisco ...

The Hubble Space Telescope reveals how color filters tease out the life cycles of stars in spiral galaxy NGC 6000 — while a ...

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally ...

Astronomers have observed a primeval star that they believe to be the most “pristine” object in the universe. A team led by ...