This photo of M16 is the latest redux image published to mark the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, which ...

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

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

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

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

A jaw-dropping video composite of the Milky Way showcases the awe-inspiring scale of the cosmos. The video, stitched together from a series of recent observations, reveals the vastness of our galaxy, ...

The findings suggest that there are many more targets of opportunity for locating potentially habitable worlds across our ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

The star is located in our Milky Way galaxy about 12,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Aquila. A light year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion ...

In a stunning twist, new observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... located about 12,000 light-years away in the Milky Way galaxy. The star, which was originally observed in a ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan were surprised by their study results, which they say are "indisputable." ...

The bill, which the lawmakers are calling the "Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act," would authorize the transfer of the shuttle to its "rightful home near NASA's Johnson Space Center." "I am proud ...