A dazzling cosmic swirl, NGC 3507 shines alone in this Hubble image, though it secretly belongs to a dynamic galactic duo.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given humanity some of the most breathtaking views of the universe. Here are 8 never-before-seen deep space images that reveal the stunning beauty and vastness of ...

This sparkling stunner brings astronomers one step closer to examining Cosmic Dawn, when the universe was just a few million ...

A dam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received ...

Embodying the often playful nature of humanity's relation with space and our exploration of it, the Blue Danube will be beamed into space.

This deep-field observation reveals not only the cluster’s own grandeur but also a stunning array of distant, faint galaxies ...

There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes.

JWST has detected the earliest galaxies in the universe, but some look “more mature” than expected. Is it time to rethink how ...

Spotted beyond Neptune, the newly identified object follows an odd path through space, one that complicates a decades-old ...

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

China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft launched on Tuesday (May 28), kicking off a bold mission to grab a sample of one of Earth's ...

The object is about 700 kilometres wide and lies nearly three times farther from Earth than Neptune. Its highly elongated ...