One of the most spectacular galaxies in Earth's sky is the subject of a new image release to help celebrate 35 years of ...

"We've always known that we need something to complete the puzzle, but we haven't really known what shape or form those ...

An astonishing discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope may rewrite our understanding of the Universe’s early years. A ...

Astronomer Charles Steinhardt said most stars we see "might have formed under different conditions than we previously ...

The findings suggest that there are many more targets of opportunity for locating potentially habitable worlds across our ...

The galaxy next to ours might be getting torn apart, a study has suggested. The Small Magellanic Cloud, or SMC – a relatively ...

The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.

Hubble’s 35‑year celebration brings a vibrant reimagining of the Sombrero Galaxy, revealing hidden dust lanes and far‑flung ...

The most distant and earliest "dead" massive galaxy ever seen shows some galaxies lived fast and died young shortly after the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA ... Despite being absolutely packed with stars, the Sombrero Galaxy is, perhaps unexpectedly, not very active when it comes to star formation.

Mysterious dark matter makes up 85 percent of matter in the universe, and of the remaining 15 percent, scientists couldn’t ...

Noll A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the ... to pick out more details in the galaxy’s disk, as well as more stars and galaxies in the background.