Located 15,000 light-years away in a region of the Milky Way brimming with stars, gas and dust, this object could be a highly ...

A new analysis of planet formation models estimates the odds of a theoretical Planet Nine orbiting our sun at 40% given ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launched in 2021 and has captured incredible photos of Uranus and some of its 28 moons.

A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

Earth and space mingle in stunning ways for the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest. From the “geological ...

Small companion galaxies around our neighboring Andromeda galaxy appear to stretch and point toward Earth in a fascinating ...

The stately and inclined spiral galaxy NGC 3511 is the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy is ...

Astronomers have observed a galaxy dating to an earlier epoch in the universe's history that surprisingly is shaped much like ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to 12 billion light-years away.

Stars, planets, gas, and dust—not even light ... By comparing M87’s relatively active jet with eventual images of our own galaxy’s dormant black hole, Markoff says, “we can better ...

The galaxy is thought to contain around 300 billion stars ... is a super huge black hole expanse known as Sagittarius A*. While we don’t have images of many of the planets in the solar system since ...