It didn't begin a long time ago or in a galaxy far far away, but every May 4 it feels like images, memes and promotional ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and powerful radio telescopes have likely solved a cosmic mystery—what ...

Star Wars Day, the informal holiday recognized every May 4, has become one of the marquee ways to celebrate the blockbuster media franchise spawned in May 1977.

This week, archaeologists identified depictions of the Milky Way galaxy in ancient Egyptian imagery. A mathematician found a ...

A new space telescope is mapping the sky in 102 colors — and it may just rewrite our understanding of the universe.

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...

Galaxy cluster Abell 1489, as imaged by the International Gemini Observatory, contains more than 200 of the ...

NASA's SPHEREx space observatory has spent the last six weeks undergoing checkouts, calibrations, and other activities to ...

Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.

This spectrograph map, generated from data collected by NASA's New Horizons probe, depicts the relatively uniform brightness ...

A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape. "This caught our attention," Charles Black, the founder of the Earth and ...