When looking up at the sky, you might think galaxies have always looked the way they do today. But a new study from Princeton ...

From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, our closest galactic neighbor, just 2.5 million light-years away, has long captivated astronomers with its spiral beauty and immense star system, home to nearly a trillion stars.

Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic ...

Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...

Arizona is an ideal spot to see the Milky Way thanks to its numerous dark-sky places. Here's the best time to see - and ...

Astronomers have imaged a "jellyfish" galaxy in detail, revealing that its spiral arms now drag behind it as a pair of tails.

Galaxies constantly collide, merge, and transform in dramatic cosmic events spanning millions of years. These interactions spark new stars, distort spiral arms, and form stunning tidal tails. It is ...

In just over 10 hours of test observations, (the observatory) has already captured millions of galaxies and Milky Way stars and thousands of asteroids.

The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly ...

In its debut, the telescope turned its eye toward two familiar showstoppers in deep space: the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas in ...

This stunning Hubble view of spiral galaxy UGC 11397 captures more than graceful arms and glowing stars—it hides a ravenous supermassive black hole, cloaked in dust but blazing in X-rays. Although ...