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

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.

Nasa said that the purple space lumps surrounding the planet are massive clouds of X-rays. Some of these lumps are even ...

Leo P, a galaxy once dormant, has reawakened to form stars again, offering new clues about the universe's earliest galaxies.

Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) — the world's largest visible- and infrared-light ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...

Messier 42 better known as the Orion Nebula, with the unaided eye from a dark sky site. This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, ...