His research focused on spiral galaxies and the direction in which they rotate. Logically, their spin should be evenly ...

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

"One explanation is that the Universe was born rotating. That explanation agrees with theories such as black hole cosmology, ...

"I was astonished by the unexpected results because they opened a new view on the first phases of galaxy evolution." ...

Bring the Moon and planets into closer view, spot stunning star clusters and observe distant galaxies and nebulas with your own eyes — you can even photograph your subject with a smart telescope.

For galaxies like ours, which are still actively ... where gravity and other forces can assemble these raw materials into planets, moons, asteroids, comets and even new stars.

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found. It’s 13.4 billion light-years away from Earth, ...

is moving relative to the other galaxies around us, and so all the mass in the universe is continuously dancing around. How does its orbital speed compare to that of other solar system planets?

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released its first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which ...