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See the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the Milky Way galaxy in this time-lapse view from the International Space Station.

This time, the focus is on the remains of a star that exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the ...

Stars in the Milky Way tend to form in families, with similar stars springing to life in roughly the same place at roughly ...

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

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is gearing up to unlock the deepest secrets of the universe with three ...

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

Study uses computer model to predict existence of habitable zones in white dwarf star systems A research team led by the ...

Astronomers say the extreme magnetic field of Magnetar SGR 0501+4516 could ‘rip apart every atom inside the body’ ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.