An unexpected detour revealed a treasure trove of blue boulders on the Red Planet in an ancient river channel.

Astronomers hypothesize that a long-ago dwarf galaxy dubbed Loki may have merged with the Milky Way when our galaxy was in ...

Mesmerizing footage from a new PBS Nature show captures the bioluminescent beauty of brilliant blue waves crashing along San ...

From the mysterious 'Hand of God' to the shiny brilliance showcasing the formation of new stars in the Westerlund 2 cluster, ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

NASA's SOFIA detected the blue areas (20 microns) near the center of this composite image of the Swan Nebula, revealing gas as it’s heated by massive stars located at the center Astronomers combined ...

New findings using data from NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission offer unprecedented insight into the ...

A probabilistic new map of the universe surrounding the Milky Way reveals that our galaxy is likely part of an even larger "basin of attraction" than we previously assumed.

Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form.

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to view the exoplanet AF Lep b before it vanished behind its star for the ...

"This is just 1% of the map, and yet it is full of a variety of sources that will help scientists discover new ways to ...

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space mission has revealed the first piece of its great map of the Universe, showing the ...