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

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

Euclid has opened a new window to the cosmos with its first deep sky data release, revealing millions of galaxies, ...

Physics Professor Colin Hill and collaborators have released the clearest images to-date of the universe in its infancy.

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's ...

A galaxy inside a bubble may be evidence that the universe was starting to become transparent 330 million years after the big bang ...

"We report the discovery of one of the most distant galaxies known to date," astrophysicist Joris Witstok told Newsweek.

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe just screamed past the Sun for the 23rd time, once again matching its own records for closest ...

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

Described as a 'gold mine,' the data could help solve astronomical questions about the expansion of the universe and the ...