Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a ...

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

If another gravity theory is correct, "then the broader implications are enormous," astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh told ...

One of these previous iterations is the Hubble Space Telescope, known for its advanced capabilities but also its limitations. The Hubble is much closer to Earth than the JWST, orbiting about 320 miles ...

The Methuselah star is the oldest star in the universe, estimated to be 16 billion years old. Read to follow the discussion ...

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.

Uranus is unique as it rotates on its side, at roughly a 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. The planet takes 84 years to orbit the Sun. An animated GIF showing Uranus' magnetic field. The ...

Researchers at Durham University have produced a new model based on the conditions created by the acceleration of the ...

A novel theoretical model based on universal expansion and star formation suggests that our universe might not have the ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

Samantha Harvey has won the UK's top fiction prize for a novel that takes place over 24 hours on the International Space ...

Hubble Space Telescope can "only see the universe in shades of grey," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Learn ...