A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings.

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky ...

"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we just ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

Since the middle of the month, four of the five brightest planets in the night sky have been visible after sunset and will ...

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

Two NASA astronauts are currently hard at work in space, patching up an instrument called NICER (Neutron star Interior ...

View the planets and night skies from home - Heavens above! Your guide to the best telescopes for stargazing, created for all ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

When Pagan and DePasquale first receive the images, they appear in black and white. The colors are added to the image later, ...