Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, ...

"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found. It’s 13.4 billion light-years away from Earth, according to new research.

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery that challenges current theories of galaxy formation. A colossal disk-shaped galaxy, nicknamed the "Big Wheel," has been found just two billion years after ...

Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reached a remarkable milestone—its 100,000th exposure, capturing an image of a quasar located 9 ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope marks its 100,000th exposure, capturing a dazzling quasar 9 billion light-years away with a ...

For over a century, astronomers have marveled at the beauty and complexity of spiral galaxies, which feature arms covered in ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope marks its 100,000th exposure, capturing a dazzling quasar 9 billion light-years away with a ...

An ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting ...

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...