The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...

A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

A 'prelude to a supernova' is how NASA describes this stunning new James Webb Space Telescope image of Wolf-Rayet Star WR 124 ...

With new images from the Hubble Space Telescope, we have new information here in the Milky Way about our closest neighboring ...

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...

The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding faster than predicted by ...

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are all visible after sunset, but social media claims about it being a rare "planetary ...