Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...

The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...

The work has revealed that Andromeda is a lot more chaotic than expected. Similar to what recently retired Gaia did for the ...