The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

MUSE allows astronomers to map the distribution of different chemical elements, displayed here in different colours. Calcium ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star meeting a dramatic end by exploding twice. In a study published in ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is making waves again, this time for a snapshot of a spiral galaxy located 250 million light-years ...

The brand new Vera Rubin telescope is about to begin its 10-year mission to offer the newest cosmic perspective we've had in ...

An explosion captured in a new image could help astronomers to better understand the "standard candles" at the center of a ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...