When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

AN alien world “suffers star-grazing torture” every 111 days as its fiery sun boils the planet to a hellish 1,093C. This ...

Astronomers tracking mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) stumbled upon an unexpected cosmic puzzle. A burst was detected from ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

Messier 87 (M87), also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo constellation. It is one ...

Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of interacting elliptical and spiral galaxies known as Arp 107. Credit: ...

Assembled from a total of 7,398 exposures taken over 411 individual pointings of the telescope, this image of our nearest major galactic neighbor, M31, is the largest Hubble mosaic to date.

Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine select star-forming areas in the Extreme Outer Galaxy in near- ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

Astronomers have traced a mysterious fast radio burst to an unexpected place — an ancient, massive galaxy far removed from ...