The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

A picturesque galaxy 40 million light-years away, NGC 5530 dazzles with its patchy spiral arms in the constellation Lupus.

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.

Far beyond the edge of what the naked eye can see, a giant spiral galaxy has offered scientists a glimpse into a possible ...

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

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found. It’s 13.4 billion light-years away from Earth, according to new research.

When I get stressed, I look into the night sky and allow my mind to roam the infinity of space and time. It helps to get your ...

Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.

You can make the case that none of them are in true color. But then again, if they were, they’d be unable to reveal the true ...

Spherex won’t see galaxies in exquisite detail like NASA’s larger and more elaborate Hubble and Webb space telescopes ... he ...

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...