Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

One of the most closely watched astronaut missions of recent memory came to a dramatic close this week as NASA’s Suni ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

Discovered last year, JADES-GS-z14-0 is the most distant confirmed galaxy ever found: it is so far away, its light took 13.4 billion years to reach us, meaning we see it as it was when the Universe ...

A supernova is a dramatic event in which a star violently explodes towards the end of its life cycle. In a striking image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the supernova explosion of a star ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent ...

Though tiny, this newfound satellite galaxy around M31 offers big lessons — and questions — about how galaxies evolve.

The Canadian-built Atacama Cosmology Telescope in the high Chilean desert mountains, which has just given up its final batch ...