Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory, astronomers have observed a young stellar object known ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury will be visible in an uncommon planetary alignment this month.

The gas giant WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful.

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

Those tiny colorful dinosaur toys that grow bigger underwater might hold the key to protecting astronauts as they journey through space.

For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a planet within a planet ...

The popular belief that European astronomy from the late Middle Ages and early Modern Age was more advanced than that of ...

Euclid, a space telescope on a mission to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy, has already made a stunning ...

Euclid space telescope sent some images back to Earth during an early testing phase. While reviewing the pictures, astronomer ...