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

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

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

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

A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star ...

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and ...

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The ...

In a landmark discovery, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a solitary stellar-mass black hole—an object with ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

In an interview with ThePrint, physicist Yogendra Narain Srivastava discusses his radical new theory of black holes and a ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...