One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is a key spot for astronomers to study star formation.

By studying how light from eight distant quasars is gravitationally lensed as it propagates towards Earth, astronomers have ...

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Astronomers have revealed a new type of cosmic object called Cloud-9 — a dim, starless gas cloud anchored by a massive dark ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center 'Get me out': Tina Peters slams Trump DOJ 'Avatar' ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a glittering blue dwarf galaxy called Markarian 178 (Mrk 178). The galaxy, which is substantially smaller than our own Milky Way, lies 13 million ...

The Hubble Space Telescope observed the debris belt and dust clouds around the star Fomalhaut, which was blotted out to allow the fainter features around it to be seen. Credit: NASA / ESA / Paul Kalas ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

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Astronomers are studying the hundreds of young, brown dwarf stars inside the stellar nursery. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 ...