Take a journey through the Milky Way galaxy, exploring the wonders of our solar system and the distant stars that illuminate the night sky. The Milky Way is home to over 100 billion stars, each with ...

From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our planet and our universe.

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

A massive, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of today's NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

Triangle is a formation of stellar bodies called an asterism, made up of the bright stars Vega, Deneb and Altair.

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that ...

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

A Full Moon happens when the Earth is between the Sun and the Moon. The Moon's orbit causes changing sunlight reflection, creating different phases. The 2025 Full Moons have traditional names ...