Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, M20 is a star-forming nebula located 9,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42 or NGC 1976) ...

A stunning new discovery has revealed a massive spiral galaxy, located nearly 1 billion light-years away, that is doing ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

A supernova is a dramatic event in which a star violently explodes towards the end of its life cycle. In a striking image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the supernova explosion of a star ...

This image displays the exact position of the most remote galaxy known as JADES-GS-z14-0, visible as a minuscule dot in the Fornax constellation. - Public Outreach Office, Space Telescope Science ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found. It’s 13.4 billion light-years away from Earth, ...

Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy, a star-scape beaming light just 300 million years after the Big ...

Though tiny, this newfound satellite galaxy around M31 offers big lessons — and questions — about how galaxies evolve.

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which ...