Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan on seeing ...

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

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

Its first images looked like this. The problem was Hubble's large mirror. Instead of using lenses to capture images, a lot of giant telescopes use a series of mirrors to focus and capture light.

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

A sparkling stellar nursery appears reminiscent of the early universe in new images from the Hubble Space Telescope. The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust ...