Explore the breathtaking beauty of the cosmos with seven incredible images of star clusters and galaxies captured by NASA.

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...

Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Project (STScI/AURA)/Robert Gendler ... Today, we take for granted that the universe is ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...