In celebration of 35 years spent in orbit around Earth, the Hubble team has released a set of four new images showing the ...

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than ...

Stranded astronauts and celebrity space tourism have piqued interest in space — and a photography exhibition in the museum is ...

Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

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Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of them orbit, and now this lopsidedness. It just goes to show that sometimes it ...

In a new study, scientists discover that white dwarf stars have greater potential to host habitable planets than previously ...