As the Hubble Space Telescope approaches 35 years since its launch, marking over three decades of incredible images of the ...

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

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

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 ...

Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, such as carbon and oxygen. Yet, despite decades of research, aspects of star ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...