The Catholic Church has almost always been at the forefront of astronomical research and its facilities in Arizona are among ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. A Cambridge ...

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

Astronomers have spent decades trying to find Earth-like planets beyond our solar system. These worlds are small, cold, and ...

For Hubble’s 35th anniversary, ESA has unveiled breathtaking new images of the star cluster Messier 72, a celestial gem located in Aquarius. Once the very first image featured in the Hubble Picture of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than ...

YR4 may hit the Moon after changing its path away from Earth. Learn what this means, how it happened, and what scientists are ...

The image is a mosaic stitched from multiple Hubble observations since the galaxy’s size exceeds Hubble’s narrow field of view.

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...

Exoplanets are already known to disintegrate slowly, but none as quickly as BD+05 4868 Ab. It loses one Mount Everest per orbit.