In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) and by analyzing archival Arecibo Observatory data, ...

Hubble captured Westerlund 1, a massive young star cluster with 50,000+ stars. This study reveals stellar motion, structure, ...

This artist's concept visualizes a super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

Other telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope can see celestial objects in exquisite detail but have a ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

Thanks to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, we can now dive deeper into our home galaxy. From dazzling star clusters to swirling nebulae, these stunning images reveal the Milky Way’s hidden beauty.

New English Ballet Theatre has announced a brand new performance partnership with the London Handel Festival with their ...