Whether influenced by the vastness of space, the imaginative worlds of science fiction, the influence of pop culture, or the ...

Up until recently, astronomy was reliant entirely on electromagnetic waves. While that changed with the confirmation of ...

"A supercomputer simulation shows many galaxies merging over time. The parts of galaxies we can see are glowing stars forming from gas in their central parts. Visualizations like these inform ...

An extreme protocluster gathering of infant galaxies is hiding a vast cosmic fuel tank that is powering 400 million years of ...

Get ready to be amazed by the breathtaking beauty of spiral galaxies! NASA has shared stunning images of these cosmic wonders ...

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 ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

In a study published in The Astrophysics Journal, a Michigan State University researcher used the NASA Chandra X-Ray ...

If it exploded today, this future supernova might be close enough to us to pose a threat, but the Sun will have burned out before it happens.

The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy ...

Whether you fly abroad or take a staycation in Northumberland, here's your complete travel guide to the best places catch the Northern Lights from Newcastle and the North East ...

O n April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope flew aboard space shuttle Discovery, which makes this year the 35th ...