A nearby galaxy is ablaze with new stars in a dazzling new image from the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA's SPHEREx telescope will explore the universe's origins, map galaxies, and search for water in the Milky Way.

The ghostly ring Kýklos (from the Greek κύκλος, circle or ring) and the object WR16 both show the environment of rare and ...

In October 1995, after decades of serious effort, astronomers announced the first discovery of a planet orbiting a Sun-like ...

Astronomers have performed a multiwavelength study of nine open cluster candidates. As a result, they found that all of them ...

Radio astronomers see what the naked eye can't. As we study the sky with telescopes that record radio signals rather than light, we end up seeing a ...

The $488-million mission is set to map the sky in 102 colors of light, probing cosmic inflation, galactic ices, and the history of the universe’s first light.

In 1986, the author talked to the BBC about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the epic series of comic novels loved by ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

Scientists have uncovered “Quipu,” the largest known galactic structure, stretching 1.4 billion light-years. This discovery ...