Astrophotographer Josh Dury’s photo of the Milky Way over Easter Island’s Moai statues has been honoured by NASA as Astronomy Photo of the Day.

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered three massive galaxies from the early universe, revealing ...

The James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic "red monster" galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They're ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the ...

This pervasive artificial glow obscures stars and the constellations they form. It hides our galaxy, the Milky Way, from four ...

"We are getting closer to unlocking the secrets of how stars and planets formed in the harsh conditions of the early universe." At this point, astronomers are used to the James Webb Space ...

Pocock, who has worked on the JWST, catalogues the science behind its most stunning images in her new book, Webb's Universe. Here's her pick of the telescope’s best shots ...

In May, an array of asteroid-watching telescopes on Earth spotted an outburst nestled in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors which is home to four of only ...

Located in the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way approximately 200,000 light-years from Earth, the brown dwarf cluster is unlike anything observed locally.

At the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, 13,000 feet above sea level on the Sierra Negra volcano of Mexico, researchers are getting a look into a violent mystery in the Milky Way ...