Scientists made the claim after analysing the data collected by the European Space Agency's recently retired Gaia spacecraft.

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan were surprised by their study results, which they say are "indisputable." ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have, for the first time, directly detected the merger of star clusters at the ...

Astronomers thought they’d made a mistake when stars in a nearby galaxy didn’t seem to rotate — but the unusual pattern turned out to be real.

Astronomers have discovered that the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy, is being torn apart by the gravitational ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

A pair of circling white dwarf stars located on our "cosmic doorstep" are doomed to explode in a rare, quadruple supernova ...

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This ...

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This detection confirms the feasibility of this formation route for nuclei in dwarf ...

Discover the intriguing space explosion predicted in a rare double white dwarf system just 160 light-years away from Earth.

Astronomers have identified two massive white dwarf stars in a binary system within the Milky Way, poised for a rare ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...