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

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

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

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

Scientists have made a stunning discovery of oxygen in the most distant galaxy known, raising questions about how galaxies ...

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

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

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, star clusters and a possible supernova "imposter".

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 ...