The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

How can astronomers pierce through the interstellar fog of the Milky Way—not to study distant objects, but to understand the ...

Astronomers have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance of mysterious plasma structures in our cosmic ...

The energy source behind both quasars and microquasars is the spin of the black hole itself. As they gradually give up this ...

An analysis of star movements from the Gaia spacecraft reveals that the Small Magellanic Cloud — a satellite galaxy bound to ...

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and Parkes 64-m telescope, an international team of astronomers has ...

Understanding the formation of stars together with their subsequent evolution and identifying the physical processes that ...

A team at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud ...

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space ...

Researchers mapping a bubble of superheated gas that surrounds our solar system found a surprise, there is a tunnel that may ...

Navigating the vast ocean of the galaxy to reach distant stars will be no easy matter, but future spaceships may find many ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan were surprised by their study results, which they say are "indisputable." ...