The most distant and earliest "dead" massive galaxy ever seen shows some galaxies lived fast and died young shortly after the ...

A striking new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a rare object called an Einstein ring. This shows what appears to be a ring-shaped object in the sky, but is actually created by two ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

A fuel dump by a SpaceX rocket caused a spectacular blue spiral above Western Europe on Monday, March 24. Here are the best photos of the unusual phenomenon.

A cosmic coincidence has led to one of the most amazing images ever captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

These observations were targeted towards a specific region of the sky, which hosts a bright quasar at redshift z=3.25. The galaxy is seen as it was 11 billion years ago, or 2 billion years after ...

It’s a perfect time to dust off that astrophotography rig and get imaging seasonal deep-sky objects, which in spring means ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have published the cosmological results of the first X-ray sky survey of the Western Galactic Hemisphere by the eRosita space ...

Last night (Monday) people looking up into the night sky were amazed to see a spectacular swirl, that looked like a spiral galaxy. People across North Wales took to Facebook to discuss the astral ...

April skies feature close planet pairings, a bright meteor shower, and stunning views of the ancient star cluster M3.