Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

The rare cosmic phenomenon, called an Einstein ring, occurs when massive objects can bend light due to their gravitational ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

J2345-0449—as the galaxy is thankfully also known—was found ... an in-depth investigation of J2345-0449 using the Hubble Space Telescope, the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, and the Atacama ...

Scientists have made a stunning discovery of oxygen in the most distant galaxy known, raising questions about how galaxies ...

Astronomers have found early evidence of the Universe’s transformation from a foggy, opaque state to a transparent one, ...

GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a cosmic mirage known as an Einstein ring, where the light ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...