Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away.

Often bucking tradition, these women sought knowledge of the universe and reimagined the way we view the cosmos.

Magnetar flares, colossal cosmic explosions, may be directly responsible for the creation and distribution of heavy elements across the universe, suggests a new study.

"I had been waiting my entire career for Webb so that we could meaningfully characterize the atmospheres of these smaller ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

NASA estimates that the Hubble Space Telescope has about 10 years of useful life before it burns up in an uncontrolled ...

These May nights provide the skywatcher impressive views of galactic clusters unimpeded by the Milky Way, the chance to study ...

The cloud of hydrogen is shaped like a crescent and “literally glowing in the dark" like fluorescent stickers on a child's ...

From breathtaking snapshots of distant galaxies to game-changing discoveries about the universe’s expansion, the Hubble Space ...