Photographer extraordinaire Don Pettit is about to return to Earth following a seven-month stay aboard the space station. Take a moment to enjoy his best work.

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Images of the distant spiral galaxy are changing conceptions of the speed and process by which galaxies form.

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

"We don't know the frequency, so we need to keep tuning and trying different ones, like searching for a good radio station ...

Dark sky hunting has become one of the biggest movements in travel, says Alicia Miller. And with International Dark Sky Week ...

Travel experts have named the National Park among the top destinations in the UK for nature lovers to explore, as well as the ...

Yet for all the new data, questions abound. What triggers these bacteria to glow en masse? Why do milky seas mostly occur in specific regions?

NASA's most powerful telescope has once again left scientists scratching their heads after challenging their understanding of ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...