The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

The Hubble telescope is yielding new clues to the evolutionary history of Andromeda, and it looks markedly different from the Milky Way's history. Without Andromeda as a proxy for spiral galaxies ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

SPHEREx is a groundbreaking NASA telescope that will map the entire sky in infrared, revealing insights into cosmic inflation ...

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic molecules.

One of the key objectives of the new space observatory will be to search the Milky Way galaxy for essential building blocks ...

Yet, each one carries its own unique history spanning billions of years, all written in its light, chemical makeup and behavior measurable by telescopes. In deciphering sagas of eons past ...

(Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute) Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a ... at a distance of 2.5 million light years away—equal to the diameter of the Milky Way disk times 25. In ...