NASA's advanced observatories have unveiled the Milky Way's hidden beauty, from its dense core with a supermassive black hole ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has recently captured extraordinary images of a rapidly collapsing star system in the Andromeda ...

The reason that teams on multiple telescopes in all different directions could hear this noise is that this annoying sound was actually the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)—radiation left over from ...

In 1925, Edwin Hubble's observation of Cepheid variables in the Andromeda galaxy revolutionized astronomy, proving the existence of galaxies beyond th ...

In the direction of Pisces, approximately 560 million light-years from Earth, scientists have discovered a particularly unique galaxy. This galaxy is neither spiral nor elliptical, but instead ...

When we look up at the night sky, most of us see stars, most of which are relatively close: less than 5,000 light-years from Earth. (The word “relatively” is a necessary qualifier, as a light-year is ...

A new image shows the growing tail of a comet from another star system streaking across our solar system. The image of comet 3I/ATLAS was captured on Aug. 27 using one of the telescopes at the ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon a scene-stealing new babe of a star by using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Hubble Space Telescope. Instead, they have seen a system — let's call it ...

It’s been over three full years since NASA’s Webb Space Telescope began "unfolding the universe" as the space agency promised with stellar images and spectroscopy of other worlds. In July, NASA, the ...

A research team has used both archival Hubble Space Telescope data and new observations to precisely measure the binary star system NGC3603-A1. One star weighs about 93 times the mass of our sun, ...

Plus, catch Saturn and Neptune at their brightest; spy the "string of pearls" galaxy; and a close encounter of the moon and Jupiter. A night sky photographer enjoys the view of Moon, Venus, and ...