That could soon change, thanks to a new NASA flagship telescope being designed to seek out strange new worlds that could ...

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

Messier 31 is located 2.5 million light-years away from Earth and was a much bigger target in the sky than the galaxies ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies ...

James Woods has lost his Pacific Palisades home in the Southern California fires that continue to devastate parts of Los ...

The Hubble Space Telescope image you see above is from last ... of spiral arms seemingly unruffled by any such merger, raising new questions about what might have triggered its jet.

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...

The detection of a "treasure trove" of stars was only possible because the light from the 44 new stars was magnified by a ...