Cutting-edge UK research, involving Newcastle University scientists, is benefiting the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission ...

Euclid, launched from Florida in 2023 on a planned six-year mission, is an orbiting observatory gathering data on how the ...

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

NGC 5042 is a breathtaking spiral galaxy showcasing a brilliant mix of ancient stars, young blue clusters, and vibrant pink H ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to directly capture images of the planets in the star system HR 8799, which ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the spiral galaxy UGC 5460, located 60 million light-years away, which has experienced two recent supernovae: SN 2011ht and SN 2015as.

This is a wide-angle view of the distribution of known satellite galaxies orbiting the large Andromeda galaxy (M31), located 2.5 million light-years away. The Hubble Space Telescope was used to ...

Cutting-edge UK research is benefiting the European Space Agency's Euclid mission, with new data released today (19 March) ...

The agency is encouraging astronomy clubs to throw “star parties” to introduce people to the nebulae and galaxies spotted by Hubble in its decades of operation.

After hours: March 18 at 7:16:59 PM EDT ...