The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Researchers analyze fossilized sounds of the Big Bang in space, and the distortions present in it indicate that the Milky Way ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

A team of astronomers has presented a theory suggesting that Earth and our entire galaxy, the Milky Way, may be located ...

The fact that this carbon dust can potentially survive for centuries could change how we think about the building blocks of new stars.

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...

Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic time to 1 billion years after the Big Bang.

Located billions of light-years away, the "Cosmic Owl" is a pair of colliding ring galaxies spotted by the JWST. It's also an ...