The universe is vast and full of mysteries, and recent advancements in astronomy are helping us uncover secrets about deep ...

Carbon, essential for life, journeys through space in a galactic recycling process, fueling star and planet formation.

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

Behold, the giants! The Hubble Space Telescope has completed a decade of observing Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

Astronomer using Hubble discovers "young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: ...

Hubble Space Telescope can "only see the universe in shades of grey," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Learn how the imagery is processed into amazing color views of the cosmos. Credit ...

A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...

Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except ...

The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million ...

Two years of data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have now validated the Hubble Space Telescope's earlier finding that the rate of the universe's expansion is faster - by about 8 per cent ...

Scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from. But two populations of so-called dark comets may tell us.