The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope is set for launch in 2027, NASA details the three main surveys it will conduct over ...

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

Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

NASA has unveiled four new images of the cosmos, including Mars, two nebulae, and a distant spiral galaxy. These stunning ...

At ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, visitors can experience some of the darkest and clearest night skies ...

In a close-up of the Rosette Nebula — a stellar nursery 5,200 light-years away — dark clouds of gas and dust are seen being carved by radiation from massive stars. A young star at the upper right is ...

Skywatchers worldwide are in for a charming cosmic display before the sun rises Friday, as three celestial bodies will appear ...

Astrophotographer Ron Brecher has captured a stunning deep sky image of the spiral galaxy M106, located 23.5 million light ...

Some 2,500 stars are located in the greater Rosette Nebula, which is some 5,200 light-years away in our Milky Way galaxy.

On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying the new Hubble Space Telescope ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into galaxies that existed at cosmic noon to hunt ravenously ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...