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

Scientists studying one of the earliest known galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that the universe's ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...

A striking new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a rare object called an Einstein ring. This shows what appears to be a ring-shaped object in the sky, but is actually created by two ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

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

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

So much time has elapsed since these vast death events, we may never know their cause exactly, but this work indicates it isn ...

Two NASA astronauts have been stranded in space for over 280 days due to technical issues with the Boeing Starliner spacecraft. Williams and Wilmore launched on June 5, 2024, for what was supposed ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I ... solid bodies of planets like our Earth. In fact, within the interstellar medium of our galaxy, most of ...

The mission will bring the next crew up to work on the International Space Station (ISS) and begin the return of a pair of astronauts back to Earth. The launch Wednesday was abruptly postponed ...