The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe’s infancy from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope show the first steps ...

NASA's newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before—a sweeping look at hundreds ...

"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ultraviolet light." A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a ...

The legendary Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze to the Ursa Major-adjacent galaxy UGC 5460, revealing spiral arms, ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...

A team of researchers at the Space Telescope Science Institute ... Together, the blue stars and bubble are part of a dwarf galaxy that extends beyond the image border. Background galaxies are ...

When I give a public talk about space ... stars looks white to the unaided eye). Cones are the cells that decipher color, and they come in three kinds: each cone is sensitive to either red, green ...

Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million ...