The photo of a 9.5-light-year-long cloud within the Eagle Nebula celebrates the space telescope’s upcoming 35th birthday.

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

"No existing galaxy formation model within our standard cosmological paradigm can currently explain how this galaxy came to ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, April 18Jupiter still rules the early-evening skies, standing ...

Slushy hailstones of ammonia and water were part of a bizarre theory to explain the planet's poorly mixed atmosphere. These mushballs seem to be real, say UC Berkeley scientists.

A new study by astronomers about distance planet K2-18b has led to what they’re calling one of the most promising sign of extraterrestrial life in the universe.

The unifying message of Monday's all-woman rocket flight is that, for now, cold space belongs to the hot and rich.

It's hard enough to make one good movie, let alone three. Here are some of the best trilogies in film history.

Credit: NASA The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer ... Snakelike dark clouds of thick dust are what's left of ...

He and his friends engaged in a conversation on whether or not the Sun was a galaxy, a planet, or even living. However, the true hilarity came from the reaction of Zias. His reaction when hearing B ...

Deep in the heart of the Milky Way lies a bustling region near to the galaxy’s supermassive black hole, where stars are born. But something strange is happening there: the rate of star formation ...