The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

The galaxy is a vibrant orange disk, dubbed the Big Wheel. Its life began within the universe’s first two billion years of ...

Astronomers have uncovered a powerful cosmic outlier that may hold clues to the Milky Way’s long-term fate. At the heart of a ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way's ...

Plenty of video games take us to outer space, but only the best space RPGs let you chart your own odyssey through the stars.

Astronomers discovered oxygen in the most distant known galaxy. This changes what we thought about how fast galaxies formed.

Star formation requires a steady supply of gas and dust to collapse and birth stellar bodies. When that gas is gone, star ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have detected a new ultra-faint ...

The legendary Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze to the Ursa Major-adjacent galaxy UGC 5460, revealing spiral arms, ...

Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy, a star-scape beaming light just 300 million years after the Big ...