NASA is helping the European Space Agency develop space telescopes that can detect gravitational waves caused when black ...

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour, now set to splash down this week, has racked up the most time spent in space by a crewed ...

The Phantom Galaxy (M74) has been imaged in infrared and optical light using the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space ...

Astronomers have found a world shrouded in an atmosphere of water vapor, orbiting a star 100 light-years away.

The elliptical galaxy NGC 1270 lies about 240 million light-years away. But it's not alone. It's part of the Perseus Cluster ...

NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space ...

Here’s another spectacular artist's depiction of a giant plume of dust surrounding a supermassive black hole, illustrating how the black hole attracts light from nearby active g ...

JWST has found an early universe galaxy forming stars faster on the outer edges than its core, a first-of-its-kind ...

The United States Supreme Court announced Monday it will not review the case of Jerry Russell Jr., an Indiana man serving ...

HELSINKI — China has unveiled a long-term roadmap to guide its space science programs up to 2050, including a mission to collect a sample of the Venusian atmosphere. The Chinese Academy of ...

Witness the mesmerizing celestial dance of R Aquarii, a symbiotic star system featuring a white dwarf and red giant. Hubble's latest images reveal explosive outbursts and glowing gas streamers.

How many moons does Jupiter have? Scientists have discovered dozens of them, but the answer may be more complicated than it ...