Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

Scientists, using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, have found that the Milky Way’s graceful spiral structure is primarily shaped by two arms extending from a central bar of stars.

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye from the Southern Hemisphere.

Physics Professor Colin Hill and collaborators have released the clearest images to-date of the universe in its infancy.

Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

The next partial eclipse will happen in the early hours of March 29, with it being visible mostly in the northeast starting ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

The first data generated by the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope, released this week, offers an opportunity to ...

A mysterious and powerful burst of radio waves reached Earth after traveling through space for 8 billion years dubbed FRB ...

“An adopted Scot, a Leither, and now an FRSE. What riches.” ...