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

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

One of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbors, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), is on display in a breathtaking image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Captured with Hubble’s Wide Field ...

Lee (Space Telescope Science Institute); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous galaxy bursting with new ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

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

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan on seeing ...

New data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope has allowed astronomers to travel back in time to the dawn of the universe.

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

After five years of staring unblinking at the sky, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) has compiled the most detailed map ...