It’s divided into sections with names like “Lunar Lunch” and “Extraterrestrial Dinner,” because why settle for boring old ...

The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

Astronomers have achieved a groundbreaking feat by capturing the first clear image of a star in another galaxy. This ...

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

NASA's SPHEREx mission is gearing up for an exciting journey aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, aiming to uncover the mysteries of the universe's early moments and the origins of water on planets. Over ...

But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way grow by merging with smaller galaxies over billions of years, unlike dwarf galaxies, which have long been thought to lack the heft to attract mass and grow in the same way.

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

A team of astronomers led by University of Arizona researcher Catherine Fielder captured the most precise photographs of a small galaxy and its surroundings re ...

BAE Systems built both the spacecraft bus and telescope for the observatory, in addition to leading spacecraft integration ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...