The glowing, clumpy streams of material shown moving left and right in this Hubble image are the signposts of star birth. This picture, an assembly of individual images taken by NASA's Hubble Space ...

In the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A, which is 4 million times the ...

Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers says scientists are ‘in striking distance’ of finding life on an exoplanet ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Dr. Jennifer Wiseman explains the Hubble Space Telescope's view of the Pillars of Creation ...

It is almost 100 years since scientists discovered the universe is expanding. In the decades that followed, the accuracy of ...

R esearchers looking for objects in the Kuiper Belt – the donut-shaped region beyond the orbit of Neptune containing icy ...

Upon completion, the Roman Telescope will head into space and take up residence at the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange point. That's ...

The Hubble Deep Field and its successor, the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, showed us how vast our Universe is and how it teems with galaxies of all shapes and sizes. They focused on tiny patches of the sky ...

A recently-discovered powerful cosmic lens, which magnifies profoundly distant objects in space. Credit: William Sheu (UCLA) ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope helped astronomers find more supermassive black holes in the early universe than previous estimates.

Now, however, Pluto and that part of the solar system has moved away from the backdrop of the Milky Way into a sparser region of the night sky. With its Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), Subaru has discovered ...