Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

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

Vivian Poulin asks if the tension between a direct measurement of the Hubble constant and constraints from the early universe ...

Astronomers studying a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy similar to our Milky Way may have just witnessed how ...

The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...

Early simulations show that it would take only 10 hours for the forthcoming ELT to find signs of life near Proxima Centauri.

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered the Firefly Sparkle galaxy, a young cosmic entity that may resemble the Milky ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in northern Chile, will give us a better view of the Milky ...