The Triangulum Galaxy, the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, is shining with star formation in a new image ...

M33 is known to be a hotbed of star birth, forming stars at a rate 10 times higher than the average of its neighbor Andromeda ...

The seven images of our cosmic neighbors shared by NASA includes VV124, Tucana Dwarf, Tarantula Nebula, NGC 1898, NGC 261, ...

This is the closest pair detected in the local universe using multiwavelength (visible and X-ray light) observations.

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For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the ...

Using the Gemini Observatory, Argentinian astronomers have conducted comprehensive photometric and spectroscopic observations ...

Celebrate a Harvest Moon lunar eclipse and an occultation of the planet Saturn, just days before Neptune reaches opposition.

NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope has peered into a distant corner of the Local Group of galaxies and spotted an ancient ...