Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across, containing roughly 200 billion stars, and our solar system is located about 26,000 light-years from its center. It takes ...

These stunning celestial formations, captured using advanced space telescopes, reveal intricate details of stars at various ...

Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would ... radio pulses: a dead star, called a white dwarf, that ...

The world’s premier space observatory has spotted a mysterious and huge, free-floating planetary-mass object that’s “just 20 ...

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...

NASA’s upcoming SPHEREx mission is on a quest to track down cosmic reservoirs of frozen water and life-essential molecules in ...

A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and ...

An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting ...