Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

Easter Island is home to more than 900 giant Moai, with more still being discovered. The statues average about twice the ...

Hot spots and tunnels to neighboring "superbubbles" seem to have been created by supernovas and infant star outbursts.

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

By teaming up, NASA’s Webb and Hubb;e space telescopes have delivered the highest resolution image of IC 2163 and NGC 2207 to date in a combination of mid-infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light. Thi ...

Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The long, ghastly ...

The universe is littered with trillions of galaxies like the Milky Way and Andromeda. If you spent your entire life, a hundred lives, looking at every galaxy you could see in a telescope, you would ...

What does the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy look like ... the researchers argue. Related: New view of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way hints at ...

8. The magnificent spiral arms of the nearby galaxy Messier 81 are highlighted in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. 9. This panorama provides an unprecedented X-ray view above and below ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have potentially discovered the first brown dwarfs beyond the borders of ...