The first official image from the Vera Rubin Observatory has revealed a ghostly river of stars stretching farther than our ...

Astronomers have revolutionized our understanding of a collection of stars in the northern sky called the Pleiades. They used ...

A baby galaxy is throwing one heck of a tantrum, and it's shaking up our understanding of the earliest galaxies.

A Platte County man who sexually abused a 5-year-old girl has been sentenced to more than three-and-a-half decades in prison.

From the Show Me State to the stars, Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born in Marshfield, Missouri. Hubble is credited with ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...

The size of the universe depends on its shape, with possibilities ranging from finite and spherical to flat or even infinite.

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...

Astrophysicist Thomas Bensby is an observational astronomer of stars and the director of graduate studies at Lund University’s department of physics. Thomas uses spectroscopy, a technique used to ...

Our search for exoplanets is focused on Milky Way stars. It's been successful, with more than 6,000 detected so far.

Astronomers have uncovered a galaxy that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way. Observations through the ALMA ...