A team used the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope to create the most detailed infrared map of the universe ...

On New Year’s Day, 1925 attendees at an astronomical conference heard one of the most influential scientific presentations of ...

While stellar surveys continue to expand in volume, our view of the Milky Way remains severely obscured, with the vast majority of stars we can study concentrated around the sun. This discrepancy ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

Canis Major Dwarf: Located in the located in the Canis Major constellation, this dwarf irregular galaxy is the closest to our Milky Way, located at an approximate distance of about 25,000 light ...

While spiral galaxies like our Milky Way are flat, the most ancient galaxies in the early universe seen by astronomers ... and the Chinese Space Station, to map the stars within the ancient ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young galaxy dating to the early universe - called Firefly Sparkle because its gleaming star clusters resemble the ...