In 1987, an enormous blue arc, thought to be hundreds of trillions of miles long, was first considered one of the largest ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. The celestial object is emitting X-rays around the ...

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

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a striking cosmic vista featuring the grand design spiral galaxy M81 alongside the nearby 'Cigar Galaxy' (M82), against the faint swirling mass of an ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is viewed face-on in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image that incorporates six different wavelengths of light.

Dubbed AT2024tvd, the burst of radiation from this " tidal disruption event " (TDE) was also picked up by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array ...

A galactic pileup 94 million light-years away is giving astronomers a detailed look at how cosmic collisions shape the universe.

Why it's so special: If you need an excuse to visit the Southern Hemisphere, the Hubble Space Telescope ... a background of ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is viewed face-on in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image that incorporates ... as seen by the bright pink regions and young blue stars tracing the galaxy's ...

Austria wants to correct a “cosmic mistake” When people hear The Blue Danube, they often immediately think of Stanley Kubrick ...