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 ...

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a young star known as PDS 453. Results of the new study, published on the ...

Many of the brush strokes, conceptual pieces and gorgeous lenses of glowing resin key to the Getty’s as-usual wildly ...

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two tangled galaxies, whose interactions have caused knots to form in the ...

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

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

If another gravity theory is correct, "then the broader implications are enormous," astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh told ...