An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

Astronomers have spotted a zombie star, SGR 0501+4516, speeding through the Milky Way. This magnetar has an incredibly strong ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

The Milky Way galaxy runs through Cygnus and is easy to find thanks to the shape of the Northern Cross at its center. Cygnus ...

On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying the new Hubble Space Telescope ...

The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

San Antonio-built satellites on mission to stare at the sun, opened their eyes and tested their thrusters for the first time last week.

Serving nine UC campuses and two national laboratories, Lick Observatory continues to be at the forefront of groundbreaking ...

From spellbinding images to groundbreaking scientific discoveries, we look back on some of Hubble's most exciting milestones.