A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our galaxy.

Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary sun-like star suddenly began flickering wildly, puzzling scientists until they ...

Anastasios (Andy) Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting ...

Scientists gathered in a conference earlier this year in an effort to solve the issue of satellite streaks ruining a powerful ...

Cornell students reflect on the Artemis program seeking to return astronauts to the Moon and establish a sustained scientific presence there.

War Machine imagines a machine arriving from space. Real astronomy has detected interstellar visitors like ʻOumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS.

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 from the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI | ...

NASA has disqualified one of the two proposals for a large astrophysics mission, a decision the project’s leader blames on ...

Analysis reveals what appears to be a channel of hot, low-density plasma stretching out from our solar system toward distant ...

Space scientist Maggie Aderin talks telescopes, neurodiversity and being underestimated with Rowan Hooper on the New ...

Teenage students from the village of Jalon in Marina Alta have achieved something most people can only dream of - sending a message into deep space.