Eros appears to buzz the Andromeda Galaxy, courtesy of a livestream hosted by the Virtual Telescope Institute in partnership ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has inspected a distant ...

A large radio galaxy study finds our solar system moves faster than theory predicts, raising new questions about how matter ...

In 1884, over a century before the James Webb Space Telescope was even imagined, astronomer E. E. Barnard spotted a faint object in the sky. He supposed it was a great cosmic cloud, called a nebula.

The Webb Space Telescope is ushering in the New Year in a similar fashion to us humans, by capturing images of brilliant bursts of color in the sky. Well, not quite “in the sky”—Webb itself is a ...

The puzzling electric charge on clouds of interstellar gas can be explained by the passage of two hot, bright stars close to ...

Two researchers from an astrophysics institute in Pune have discovered one of the most distant spiral galaxies ever observed ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...