When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the narrator taking us both outward toward the fathomless end of the Universe ...

The fast-moving gas cloud could help explain the so-called missing satellite problem, if the object is what scientists think ...

As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the Ring, “Not all those who wander are lost.” But in the case of planets, it’s possible that most of them are.

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms. The galaxy, NGC 5530, is located 40 million light-years from Earth in the ...

NASA's most powerful telescope has once again left scientists scratching their heads after challenging their understanding of ...

NASA and the European Space Agency released the photo on Monday. The outflow is about 625 light-years from Earth in one of the closest star-forming regions of our Milky Way galaxy, according to NASA.

The star, which stands out due to its prominent diffraction spikes, is in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and is 7,109 light-years from Earth. The galaxy, on the other hand, is about 45 million ...

Located over 12 million light-years from Earth, a spiral galaxy known as NGC 4945 is blowing ... "Some, like the one at the center of our own Milky Way, aren't particularly hungry.

The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest galactic neighbors, which is full of bright, colorful stars. Located about 200,000 light-years from Earth, the ...