According to scientists, a real-world 'warp drive' could allow spaceships to jump between galaxies just like in Star Wars.

Astronomers have, for the first time, directly observed star clusters merging at the cores of dwarf galaxies—a process long ...

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gearing up to unlock the deepest secrets of the universe with three ...

"M31 is the only system that we know of that demonstrates such ... streams of stars cannibalized from the galaxy eaten by M31 and producing a burst of star formation. However, even if the dwarf ...

Simon Smith, a PhD student at UVic and Nanaimo Astronomy Society’s next guest speaker, specializes in finding extremely tiny, faint and old galaxies and studies how the behaviour of stars within them ...

Known as nuclear star clusters, these are the densest type of stellar system in the universe. The formation of such extreme objects has been under debate for several decades. In dwarf galaxies ...

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.

On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying the new Hubble Space Telescope ...

When cosmologists used different ways to measure the value of sigma 8, a number that denotes how clumpy the universe is, they ...

Picture this: a small audience is quietly ushered into a darkened room. They gasp in awe, as a brilliant night sky shines above. They wonder—as many after them will do—what trickery has made the roof ...