Pulling the plastic bins down the rough pavement of my driveway, I stare up at a smattering of stars and planets. I can’t see that many; the band of the Milky Way that I used to see nightly when I ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

Shore and boat anglers enjoyed good fishing for walleyes during the annual spring run in the Wolf River near Red Banks in ...

The halo is more extended that astronomers originally thought, and contains enough hydrogen gas to resolve the problem of the ...

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

In one of the world's largest star-gazing sanctuaries, Māori guides connect travelers with the cultural and spiritual ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

The Milky Way may have a twin. The discovery of the most distant spiral galaxy to date may change the way we think about both ...