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

To mark its 35th anniversary, the European Space Agency (ESA) is revisiting iconic Hubble images with updated data and ...

In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the ...

As part of ESA/Hubble's 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) is sharing a new image series ...

A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the charming Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the ...

A new analysis of the sky has finally confirmed where the missing half of the Universe's visible matter has been hiding.

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop.

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

One approach looks far back in time, using the cosmic microwave background—the faint light ... The Local Group, which includes the Milky Way, has a peculiar velocity of about 627 kilometers ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

The PRIME telescope, operated by Osaka University and others in South Africa, which can potentially study the Milky Way's ...

This time, astronomers have used new processing techniques to draw out additional details in celebration of the telescope's ...