Two space missions reached their conclusion: one with a splashdown, the other with a quiet lunar death. And thrilling new ...

The presence of oxygen suggests that galaxies formed more quickly than expected in the early days of the universe.

For the first time in nearly a century, Earth’s night sky may soon be lit up by one of nature’s rarest celestial events: a ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever observed, JADES-GS-z14-0, shaking up our understanding of ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...

Astronomers have discovered the smallest dwarf galaxy ever seen. It is a mystery how the satellite galaxy of Andromeda ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever observed, marking humanity's farthest-known discovery of oxygen.

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They’ve certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations.

New observations with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile reveal the earliest-ever "baby pictures" of our universe, ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...