The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

Hubble Space Telescope captures the dazzling globular cluster NGC 6569, revealing a glittering hoard of stars in the heart of ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

Scientists have discovered the largest known structure in the universe, a massive superstructure named Quipu. This enormous cosmic formation weighs an astonishing 200 quadrillion times the mass of the ...

See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years away and has also been imaged by Hubble Space Telescope, comparison shown ...

Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...

Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

A galaxy in the distance, was tightly encircled by a halo of light—also known as an Einstein Ring, a result of gravitational ...