The Messier 87 galaxy's center contains a black hole, which was seen in this ground-breaking image for the first time. It is ...

Discover how careful observation of stars reveals insights into God's creation, as illustrated by recent Vatican Observatory research on stellar haloes and galactic formation.

The Andromeda Galaxy. This galaxy is visible to the unaided eye under dark skies, away from waste artificial lighting ...

Year? A light-year is the distance light travels in one year. Light moves incredibly fast — about 186,000 miles (300,000 ...

Light is a time machine: all we see, from stars to galaxies, shows the past. Expanding space stretches light, letting ...

German astronomer Simon Marius is best remembered for his disputes with Galileo Galilei over priority for discovering Jupiter ...

Enlightened people see themselves and all humans as fellow citizens of one world – travelling on the same planet spinning ...

According to NASA, on Oct. 14, 2024, the Europa Clipper was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launched in ...

A Canadian-led project peers back 13 billion years, giving science its first look at the birth of something resembling the Milky Way ...

A new photograph shared by NASA offers a peek at the breathtaking views seen from the International Space Station (ISS). The ...

Sometime in the future, astronomers believe our own Milky Way galaxy will meet up with the Andromeda galaxy, and end with the two merging together. The researchers say that they hope to unravel ...

Pale Blue Dot (1990): Captured by Voyager 1 from 3.7 billion miles away, this image of Earth as a tiny speck in the cosmos reminds us of our place in the universe. The First Spacewalk (1965): A ...