Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

A star more than 160,000 light-years from Earth has just become the epic subject of the first close-up portrait of a star in ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

In an image snapped by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8, Mexico's most active volcano Popocatépetl can be seen ...

One of the most important scientific questions today is how many potential Earth-like Habitats (EHs) exist in the Galaxy, and ...

Located about 325 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra, the penguin galaxy owes its warped appearance to ...

Scientists estimate a 27% chance of intelligent alien life beyond our galaxy using a new model. The research integrates the ...

The galaxy, IC 3225, is located about 100 million light-years from Earth and is a member of a large group of galaxies known as the Virgo Cluster. A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope ...

It’s about 25,000 light-years from Earth and some 1,000 light-years away from our galaxy’s center. Astronomers discovered the star and a suspected accompanying planet after a 2011 microlensing ...