A pair of quasars that existed when the universe was only 3 billion years old has been spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope.

A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.

The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

Hubble Space Telescope imagery Neptune has revealed that the planet's clouds are disappearing. Credit: NASA Goddard Space ...

The LMC is a dwarf galaxy, relatively close to the Earth (in galactic terms) at around 160,000 light years away. That may ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a leading center for robotic space exploration run by NASA and the California Institute ...

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

Lightspeed travel is a popular concept in sci-fi and pop culture, but it's not a technology we are likely to see anytime soon ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...

A team of astronomers has discovered a link between black holes and stellar eruptions, suggesting the potential existence of ...