A star cluster concealed behind thick clouds of dust near the Milky Way’s center may be 13.4 billion years old, placing it ...

Good morning, this is Abel. Today's main story is the first close-up image taken by the European probe Hera of the binary ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already uncovered two previously unknown companions of the Milky Way using preliminary observations covering just 7% of the night sky. The discoveries include an ...

Hubble has released a new image of Messier 30, known as M30, a globular cluster about 27,500 light-years away in the constellation Capricornus. NASA published the picture on Nov. 5 alongside a note ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image provides a lesson in galactic history. The sparkling collection of stars is named ...

Our cosmic neighbourhood is full of surprises, some you cannot even imagine. In a paper published on Monday in The ...

One of NASA’s premier space telescopes plunged to Earth on Wednesday, ending its 22-year investigation of the universe’s ...

The Swift Observatory allowed astronomers to study events that happen quickly in the universe, such as stars exploding.

The Swift Observatory allowed astronomers to study events that happen quickly in the universe, such as stars exploding.

Earth have between just 4% and 25% of the oxygen that their stars are known to have produced. Scientists are not sure where ...

You see the same Einstein story almost every week about his biggest blunder: how his static universe failed. He wanted a static universe, added something to his equations to hold it still called the c ...

Hubble reveals a mystery in nearby dwarf galaxies, where powerful stellar explosions appear to have swept away much of their ...