Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures extraordinary images of young stars, shedding light on star formation in the Orion Nebula.

"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

BAE Systems has successfully delivered NASA’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and ...

Dive into a celestial masterpiece with the Hubble Space Telescope's latest snapshot of the Large Magellanic Cloud, showcasing ...

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is much larger than the Hubble and instead of orbiting the Earth, operates from a stationary ...

Space exploration also helps us understand the building blocks of the universe by studying cosmic phenomena like black holes, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of galaxies LEDA 48062 and UGC 8603. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Tully | edited by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Music: Missing of Times by Joseph ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...