The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of an object 9,000 light-years way known as IRAS 05506+2414. It "may be an ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...

Sixty years and $350 billion have produced a system that at best is capable of intercepting a highly contrived test target 57% of the time, according to the U.S. Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been giving us a fabulous new view on the Universe since its launch.

NASA has captured some of the most breathtaking star clusters in the universe, where countless stars shimmer like cosmic ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study.

The Webb telescope is well-suited to identify asteroid 2024 YR4's size. Webb views a type of light we can't see with the ...