The centaur, which is a frozen body orbiting the sun between Jupiter and Neptune, is a relic of the solar system's birth.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and, thus, earliest strongly rotating galaxy ever seen that is well-organized ...

Astronomers have discovered REBELS-25, the most distant rotating disk galaxy ever observed, which formed when the universe ...

This faint southern constellation contains a smattering of galaxies — and one standout globular cluster — to explore.

The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on an ancient supernova, revealing fresh evidence that a crisis in cosmology ...

The looping arc of the question mark is created by a pair of galaxies that, through the ... appearance in our telescopes therefore depends on its orientation. The white spiral galaxy shows its broad, ...

A dazzling new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a bright spiral galaxy on a diagonal tilt, resembling a ...

In honor of the completion of our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's spacecraft - the vehicle that will maneuver the ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects―the most ...

Earth is set to play host to a “mini-moon” this week, as a small asteroid – about the length of a double-decker bus – enters the planet’s orbit. The temporary guest, called 2024 PT5, is ...

2024 PT5 will not be visible to the naked eye and can only be seen through telescopes used by professional astronomers. Prof Brown said mini-moons are fairly common but “what tends to be less ...

2024 PT5 will not be visible to the naked eye and can only be seen through telescopes used by professional astronomers. Prof Brown said mini-moons are fairly common but "what tends to be less ...