The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo ...

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop in Chile, unveiled vibrant images Monday of colorful nebulas, stars ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

This Hubble image is composed of two different exposures which have been merged together, showing star BD+17 2217 shining over the background galaxy Arp 263.

This sprawling star-forming region is located about 5,200 light-years away in the Milky Way galaxy and measures a vast ... In the background, the image is filled with expansive clouds of ...

Webb's next image shows the Southern Ring Nebula, or "Eight-Burst Nebula" — a figure-eight-shaped cloud of gas and dust expelled by a massive, dying star some 2,500 light-years from Earth.

For the first time, scientists have captured a zoomed-in photo of a star outside of our Milky Way galaxy. The image revealed surprising details about WOH G64, a giant star that is probably dying ...

Stars in the making pictured in images 'no one has ever seen before' as astronomers build 'space atlas' ... glowing clouds, newly-born stars and the distant background stars of the Milky Way. ...

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon as it slowly dies.