MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are all visible after sunset, but social media claims about it being a rare "planetary ...

In a stunning revelation, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has peered into the cosmic cradle of star formation, capturing an extraordinary view of young ...

The star Vega has been known to us for years, but that doesn't mean it's short on surprises. Here's what astronomers found ...

A rare-earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) is now being used by an Oxfordshire-based company for its superconducting properties ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, ...

January started out with a meteor shower and now has a planetary alignment in store. Here's what you'll be able to see and ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

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

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

Bonifacia, one of seven sisters from the Omuto Community, Province of Urcos, is dressed in a cherry-pink wool jacket ...

This is the largest photomosaic yet assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 ...