The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait to pick apart.

Stars uncontaminated by heavier elements are thought to have formed very early in the universe, but a galaxy much later in ...

By clocking the speed of stars throughout the Milky Way galaxy, MIT physicists have found that stars further out in the galactic disk are traveling more slowly than expected compared to stars that ...

The Sombrero galaxy is so named because, in visible light images, lying nearly edge-on to us, it bears an uncanny resemblance to a sombrero hat, with its wide rim and bulging center. In this new ...

The galaxy is a whopping 6.5 billion light-years from Earth and Webb’s recent snapshot of it captures 44 individual stars, seen thanks to the telescope’s remarkable capabilities and the ...