Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

The Hubble Space Telescope is in low Earth orbit, 320 miles (515 kilometers) above the planet, placing it above most of the ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

The Lyrid meteor shower, one of the oldest known meteor showers, is at its peak and will continue through April 26.

By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our ...

Why it matters: University of Utah astronomers have used Hubble's images to find new (ish) black holes. How it works: When it ...

JWST discovers Zhúlóng, the earliest Milky Way-like galaxy, 800 million years after the Big Bang explosion occurred.

The potential discovery of life elsewhere is down to the unprecedented sensitivity of Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope.

Astronomers have spotted the farthest spiral galaxy ever seen. Its light has travelled 12.8 billion years to reach Earth.

The most distant spiral galaxy candidate known to date has been discovered. This ultra-massive system existed just one ...