From sparkling brilliance of the Westerlunds, to the stunning view of the Milky Way's galactic center, check out these 10 ...

"It's basically a huge intergalactic field of debris," Marina Arnaudova ... years from Earth and was the first compact galaxy ...

Edwin Hubble is celebrated as one of the 20th century's most influential cosmologists, renowned for his pivotal contributions ...

Astronomers have observed the first confirmed instance of the "Einstein zig-zag," a phenomenon where light from a distant ...

Closest Quasar: This image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is likely the best of ancient and ...

Discover the explosive end of a star's life—supernovas. Learn what causes these cosmic events and their impact with ...

American space agency NASA says it has begun installing the telescope assembly in the space observatory that will become ...

Astronomers have observed a cosmic collision of extraordinary magnitude as the galaxy NGC 7318b plowed into its neighbors at ...

Astronomers have unveiled a stunning "flame-throwing guitar" nebula in space, captured by NASA's Chandra and Hubble ...

Astronomers have unveiled a stunning "flame-throwing guitar" nebula in space, captured by NASA's Chandra and Hubble ...

A black hole's destructive power unfolds as scientists discover a stellar collision in a galaxy’s core. A torn-apart star ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of galaxies from a time when the Universe was less than a billion years ...