Far from waging galactic warfare, astronomers use these lasers to create "artificial stars" in order to measure atmospheric ...

A new study suggests the Milky Way consumed an ancient dwarf galaxy billions of years ago, and its stellar remains may still be embedded within ours.

This limited 30th Anniversary AJ11 features a galaxy-print patent leather mudguard inspired by the Space Jam movie poster.

Hubble images never fail to amaze.

To find the end of the Milky Way, scientists looked to the outermost star-formation site, roughly 40,000 light-years from the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a surprising discovery about a galaxy long, long ago and far, far ...

This cosmic target had a glow up.

Once considered to be the largest-known spiral galaxy, NGC 6872 was later dethroned by NGC 262, which measures 1.3 million light-years in diameter. The spiral galaxy's unusual size and appearance is ...

LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble ...

The 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera in Chile has captured an extended halo and a dust-filled disk around the hat-shaped ...