The new view captures an irregularity in how stars are distributed within NGC 6397.

Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have pinned down the distance to NGC 6397, one of the Milky Way’s nearest ...

Learn about the Great Attractor, a region of the universe that is constantly pulling the Milky Way and thousands of other ...

"Clusters rich in red supergiants are very rare and tend to be very far away, but they play a crucial role in understanding key aspects in the evolution of massive stars." When you purchase through ...

As winter's brilliant stars slip toward the western horizon and the constellations of spring climb higher, Northern ...

Astronomers have discovered the faintest star cluster known, a "ridiculously dim" tiny glob of stars on the outskirts of our Milky Way. The globular cluster is so faint, it is pushing the boundaries ...

Chinese astronomers have conducted observations and analyses of star clusters in the outer halo of the Andromeda Galaxy — the ...

Just when astronomers thought they might have dug up the last of our galaxy’s “fossils,” they’ve discovered a new one in the galactic equivalent of our own backyard. Called globular clusters, these ...

Ursa Major III orbits the Milky Way at a distance of 32,600 light-years. Until now, it was considered a dwarf spheroidal galaxy. Normally such a faint object wouldn’t be classified as such, but ...

A new study puts Ursa Major III, a ghostly satellite of our Milky Way, under the microscope. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...