When astronomers look at distant objects—far away in both space and time—all too often, dust gets in their eyes. Well, not ...

New near-infrared observations by the James Webb Space Telescope highlight a tightly packed group of stars at the peculiar ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a luminous tangle of stars and dust called the barred spiral galaxy NGC ...

Hubble Space Telescope can "only see the universe in shades of grey," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Learn ...

Astronomer using Hubble discovers "young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small ...

Behind this galaxy’s calm facade lies the fingerprint of a long-dead giant star. A violent supernova once rocked its ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has gifted us with some of the most stunning and detailed images of our universe. From distant galaxies and star-forming nebulae to colossal galaxy clusters, these ...

The famous black hole M87 keeps surprising us. New research calculates its spin speed to be at 80% of the theoretical limit, ...

Dozens of NASA's missions to explore the cosmos could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.

Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally thought.

A research team from the USA is convinced that new data from two space telescopes resolve the stubborn discrepancy in ...

UC Santa Barbara physics professor co-leads COSMOS-Web Project cataloging nearly 800,000 galaxies spanning nearly all of ...