This incident felt like a small thorn in my heart and led me to reconsider an old question: if the universe really has a boundary, what exactly lies beyond it? Let me first mention an interesting ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals new details in Messier 82 (M82), home to brilliant stars whose light is ...

Astronomers are trying to determine what caused a series of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, ...

This ghostly galaxy was first observed in 1780 by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain, who worked with renowned comet hunter ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years away in the constellation Delphinus," according to NASA. Credit: Space.com ...

Hubble discovered a white dwarf planet devouring a Pluto-like object, revealing debris rich in water and nitrogen.

By studying the chemical composition of an odd, dying star, astronomers discovered that it had been feasting on what used to ...

Scientists have used the Gaia Space Telescope to create a 3D map of star kindergartens within the Milky Way, and you can fly through it.

Hubble’s latest look at Messier 96 reveals a warped spiral galaxy glowing with rings of stellar birth. The new details shed light on how stars emerge and influence their surroundings.

Telescopes on the National Mall tonight will give people a chance to see the stars and experience the largest astronomy outreach event in the United States.

A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have witnessed a rare cosmic meal: a white dwarf star consuming pieces of a ...