The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

The year 2025 promises to be packed with space exploration, including robotic expeditions to the moon, a new observatory and ...

ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, ...

Happy Galaxies Day! A century ago tonight, Edwin Hubble exposed a photograph at the 100-inch telescope on Mt. Wilson whose ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...

Three supermoons will light up 2025's calendar, with the largest occurring on November 5. These events include the Hunter's Moon on October 7, the Beaver Moon on November 5, and the Cold Moon on ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have puzzled scientists since they were first discovered in 2007. They are, as the name suggests, extremely brief bursts of radio emission, lasting just milliseconds. They're ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made.

Witness a lunar occultation of both Mars and the Pleiades; plus, Mars reaches opposition and Venus and Saturn sit close ...

Hubble made no claims about a creator, but his discoveries and the wonder they evoke have prompted others to reconsider ‘the ...

Unleash your curiosity about millinovae, the cosmic newcomers that bridge the gap between two well-known types of exploding stars.

But the state-of-the-art space observatory has recently imaged two grand design spiral galaxies, and one appears to be the ...