The Virgo cluster, despite being millions of light-years away, closest large galaxy cluster to Earth. The Virgo galaxy ...

Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace.

Astronomers have discovered a new type of object that is a starless cloud that failed to form as a galaxy. Here's what to ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object, a cloud of dark matter and gas ...

American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In general, objects get smaller and fainter with distance (although bizarre ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed look yet at faraway galaxies at the peak of their youth, an active time when the adolescent galaxies were fervently producing new stars.

Here are six of the most stunning newborn stars and galaxies images shot by NASA James Webb Space Telescope, depicting the ...

He and Douglas Trumbull went from creating a short film for the 1964 World’s Fair to working many exacting months on the ...

When scientists describe “Earth-like” planets, the phrase often brings to mind worlds scattered across the galaxy, quietly ...

From a window on the International Space Station, astronauts have captured a rare view of a nearby galaxy caught in the act ...