The Geminid meteor shower peaks overnight this weekend. Here's when to look for the most shooting stars — and where to aim ...

The Milky Way looks serene from our vantage point, a hazy river of light arcing across the night sky. Yet the stars that make ...

Astronomers used powerful telescopes to uncover galaxies of every possible shape and size. From nearby spirals like Andromeda ...

MUSE survey, an international team of astronomers has inspected a nuclear star cluster of the nearby large spiral galaxy ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has turned its sharp eye toward a ghostly swirl of stars and gas known as the "Lost Galaxy," given ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

A research team led by Professor Woong-bae Zee at Sejong University has uncovered compelling evidence that the distinctive ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, billions of stars and their attendant planets. The universe teems with huge, ...

For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned out to ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...