The galaxy ESO 300-16 looms over this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy, which lies 28.7 million light-years from the earth. NGC 6827 is a Seyfert 1 galaxy located in the ...

"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ...

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars.

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

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

You can make the case that none of them are in true color. But then again, if they were, they’d be unable to reveal the true ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a breathtaking image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430, situated 100 million light-years from Earth in the Leo Minor constellation.

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe's ...

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is a collaborative effort between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space ...