This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant universe. Pictured here is the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223, or MACS J1149 for short, which is ...

While two teams have ideas about what happened to yellow supergiant M31-2014-DS1, ultimately, it remains a mystery.

Space telescopes are all the rage, and rightfully so. The images they take are spectacular, and they’ve greatly increased what we know about the universe. Surely, any picture taken of, say, ...

The new Dobsonian telescope and free astronomy courses will help residents chart galaxies and their own cosmic curiosity ...

A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the ...

Sujata Bajaj returns to Delhi with ‘SPACESCAPES’, her first abstract solo in the city in over 16 years. Opening with a ...

This artist’s rendering illustrates a precessing jet erupting from the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy VV 340a. Optical observations from the W. M. Keck Observatory revealed extended, ...

Astronomers have revealed a new type of cosmic object called Cloud-9 — a dim, starless gas cloud anchored by a massive dark matter halo that may be the first-confirmed failed galaxy. When you purchase ...

The Cosmic Picture: An international team of researchers has observed the first-ever instance of a new type of celestial object. Dubbed Cloud-9, the structure is a gas cloud composed primarily of dark ...

Astronomers using Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a new type of cosmic object that is believed to be a “failed galaxy”. Dubbed ‘Cloud-9’, the astronomical curiosity is a cloud of dark ...

Astronomers say they have identified a new type of astronomical object that challenges traditional ideas about how galaxies form. Using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists studied a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, a partnership of NASA and the European Space Agency, has made a discovery — not by what it saw, but by what it didn't see. Credit: NASA In the beginning, not all amateur ...