Cassini detected fresh organic compounds in ice plumes from Enceladus’s subsurface ocean, strengthening the moon’s potential ...

Near-Earth asteroid Eros will appear near the Andromeda Galaxy on 30 November, offering a rare sky alignment livestream for ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been surveying space since 1990 and has captured some interesting cosmic elements in action.

The Gemini South telescope in Chile captured this stunning view of NGC 6302, highlighting the nebula’s intricate structure ...

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May's latest book explores the history, mystery and evolution of galaxies in a way never tried ...

Astronomers know that mergers play a huge role in galaxy growth. Right now, the Milky Way is slowly consuming the Large and ...

The newly released Andromeda image represents a decade of careful tracking and uninterrupted observation. Scientists expected a crisp portrait of the neighboring galaxy, but the final scan revealed ...

It's been 35 years since Hubble came online, so in honor of the intrepid telescope's 35th anniversary, we've put together this gallery of our favorite Hubble images. The Hubble Space Telescope was ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...

Astrophysicist Edwin Hubble was offered a staff position at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919 by the founder and director of the observatory, astrophysicist George Ellery Hale. Good timing for ...