The Methuselah Star, also known asHD 140283, has long been a subject of fascination among astronomers. Its age, initially ...

The Hubble Space Telescope reveals how color filters tease out the life cycles of stars in spiral galaxy NGC 6000 — while a ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory joined forces to find an elusive intermediate mass black holes in ...

When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is considered a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It's actually visible to the naked eye ...

New images of the 33-million ton interstellar object confirmed it is releasing a nickel alloy commonly used in the aerospace ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures NGC 6000’s glowing yellow core and brilliant blue spiral arms, showcasing stars of all ...

Astronomers are watching a new comet pass through our solar system with great interest. Based on its glow, the 33-billion-ton ...

The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small suitcase and carries ...

Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old — after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...

On the night of Oct. 5 to 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble discovered a new star — and revealed the utter vastness of the universe. Hubble was looking at the cosmos with the 100-inch Hooker telescope at the ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...