The nature of dark matter has puzzled astronomers since discovering that 85% of the universe's matter is invisible through ...

In a new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a galaxy named for its resemblance to a broad-brimmed Mexican hat appears more like an archery target. In Webb’s mid-infrared view of the ...

"I do believe that from the older missions there is data that has been lost and we're never going to find it." ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of interacting galaxies Arp 142 seems to sing in primary colors.

China has sent a compute module to the Tiangong Space Station featuring Loongson-designed CPUs. The Star Eye system was sent ...

A waning crescent moon will creep closer and closer to Spica until the star's light is extinguished in the blink of an eye on ...

An astrophysicist and his team have made history by capturing the first-ever close-up image of a star in another galaxy.

Stephan's Quintet, a group of five galaxies first discovered nearly 150 years ago, became the stage for this extraordinary ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

NGC 2090, featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope image, is a key galaxy in recalibrating the Hubble constant.

If WOH G64 was placed at the center of our Solar System, it would extend to the orbit of Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun.

The universe's galaxies grew over billions of years. A new study confirms Einstein’s theory and reveals clues about ...