James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a rare double-ring galaxy collision 11 billion light-years away, forming an owl-like ...

NASA astronomers have confirmed what may be the greatest discovery of the era. They found a significant reservoir of water that was hidden in the cosmos, and that surrounds a quasa ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

This stunning 527-megapixel composite reveals both visible and infrared views of young stars, ionized gas, and dust filaments ...

Astronomers claim to have found new evidence supporting a controversial observation that our galaxy is residing in an ...