The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

Capturing images of individual stars in distant galaxies has generally been considered impossible for decades. But NASA’s ...

The latest one in this class is even more puzzling. It has been dubbed Inkathazo, and it is truly massive, with cosmic jets spanning 3.3 million light-years from one end to the other. That’s ...

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on a test flight Thursday, but the spacecraft was destroyed after losing engine ...

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark ...

"it's not completely unusual for asteroids to be near the Earth," Gallagher said. "Our moon is about a quarter million miles ...

(Reuters) - India's space agency ISRO postponed a highly anticipated space docking mission for the second time late Wednesday. The agency cited an issue arising from excess drift between the ...

The EV and battery giant is the most prominent of Chinese automotive firms expanding abroad - plans that are increasingly threatened by thorny trade disputes between Beijing and the West.

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016. Dr. Rubin’s work persuaded astronomers of the existence of dark ...