The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images, which capture the ...

The event is the most massive black hole merger ever recorded by gravitational wave detectors and has forced physicists to ...

A new galaxy was found with 10,000 more of unseen mass than the Milky Way. Now, scientists are wondering if there are more of ...

The newly discovered space rock may be older than our entire solar system, and you may get the chance to see it ...

Scientists predict up to 100 invisible galaxies may orbit the Milky Way, hiding just beyond our current detection limits.

A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

A newly discovered object from deep space may be the oldest comet ever observed—possibly more than 7 billion years old, and ...

In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

There may be many more satellite galaxies in the Milky Way than have been observed, according to new Durham University ...