NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team shared Thursday the designs for the three core surveys the mission will conduct ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

Northern Minnesota is home to some of the darkest and most pristine night skies in the United States. The Boundary Waters ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

"All the odd shapes and swirling gas observed in the Perseus cluster now make sense within the context of a major merger." ...

The gorgeous Eagle Nebula is one of the most iconic objects in the cosmos, known affectionately as the Pillars of Creation.

A new analysis of the sky has finally confirmed where the missing half of the Universe's visible matter has been hiding. In ...

A fog of long-wavelength infrared light could be produced by dusty, star-forming galaxies that have remained hidden — until ...

Gravity pulls us to earth, a lesson you learn viscerally the first time you fall. Isaac Newton described gravity as a ...

Astronomers may have uncovered a hidden population of galaxies that could rewrite what we know about the universe's evolution ...