"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

PUNCH, a bold new NASA mission, has successfully taken its first images of the Sun’s corona from orbit using four ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant spiral galaxy candidate known ...

Usually, young massive stars move around along with the gas that they were born from – but the SMC’s stars do not appear to be moving in that way, suggesting that the gas itself is not ...