Light pollution from the exploding number of satellites orbiting Earth is making it harder to peer into space.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland is facing controversy over potential building closures. Here's what's been ...

We've all come to appreciate the beautiful images space telescopes provide us of galaxies, nebulas and more, but they also ...

Proliferating satellites are beginning to harm the science work of the beloved Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories ...

Light from the half a million satellites that humanity is planning to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years could ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

"The James Webb Space Telescope has captured helium escape from this planet for the first time, and it is the most confident ...

Indian astronomers have identified a surprisingly mature, Milky Way-like galaxy from the universe’s early era. Named ...

Indian astronomers have discovered 'Alaknanda,' a remarkably well-formed spiral galaxy, just 1.5 billion years after the Big ...

Far beyond the orbit of Jupiter, an icy wanderer has baffled astronomers for decades — erupting seemingly at random, flaring hundreds of times brighter in mere hours. Now, thanks to new data from the ...

Recently, Pune researchers found a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way from the early universe. What is the striking ...

Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules ...