The Antikythera Mechanism dates back more than 2,000 years and has been described as the most complex piece of engineering to ...

In celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in Earth orbit, NASA is releasing an assortment of compelling images ...

Astronomers have discovered that the magnetar SGR 0501+4516 is speeding through our galaxy at more than 110,000 mph. This ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Understanding the formation of stars together with their subsequent evolution and identifying the physical processes that ...

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

Scientists have developed a breakthrough coronagraph that could finally allow us to see Earth-like exoplanets hidden in the ...

A new University of Kansas survey of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen star ...

Three-body problem: A longstanding problem in classical mechanics that tries to calculate the trajectories of three masses ...

Astronomers have described the first measurements of plasma layers within an interstellar shock wave that surrounds a pulsar.

Something unexpected has come to life in the great darkness of space. In a galaxy 300 million light-years away from Earth, a ...