One third of the galaxy’s entire stellar output is locked away in just a few dense balls of stars. The rest is just a thin, cold “field” of stars barely clinging to existence. It is, for all intents ...

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery: a faint object nearly invisible is holding a collection of star clusters ...

LOFAR’s LoTSS-DR3 survey maps 13.7 million radio sources, revealing black hole jets, supernovas, galaxy clusters and new details about magnetic fields in the Milky Way and beyond ...

Study led by University of Bonn finds galaxy clusters contain about twice as much normal matter as previously estimated, based on recalculated stellar populations and survey data.

Globular clusters are spherical associations of old stars, thought to have formed during the earliest days of our universe, nearly 14 billion years ago. They contain some of the oldest stars in our ...

The history of how stars and galaxies came to be and evolved into the present day remains among the most challenging astrophysical questions to solve yet, but new research brings us closer to ...