The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...

Hubble made no claims about a creator, but his discoveries and the wonder they evoke have prompted others to reconsider ‘the ...

There are many observations from JWST that have challenged our understanding of how galaxies grow and evolve in the early universe. Just to add another, a galaxy that looks like the Milky Way and is ...

The spot we see today isn’t the same one the Italian astronomer Cassini discovered centuries ago, research shows.

The Hubble Space Telescope captures the mesmerizing galaxy LEDA 22057, home to a recent supernova explosion, SN 2024PI. This ...

The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

Astronomer using Hubble discovers "young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small ...

Created by a young star, the bipolar star-forming region Sharpless 2-106 in this Hubble image depicts how intense the ...

Quasars are awe-inspiring – among the brightest objects in the Universe, behind gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. Unlike other ...

From orcas wearing salmon hats to April's total solar eclipse, it's been a big year for science news. We've brought together ...

Some space images have become timeless icons of our exploration of the cosmos. Take the famous photo of the Pillars of ...