The lander, Blue Ghost, fired its engines for four minutes Thursday to propel the spacecraft into lunar orbit ahead of a ...

Leo P is a rare, untouched galaxy that has remained unchanged for billions of years. Unlike many galaxies that merged and ...

In popular culture, heaven is depicted with pearly gates, fluffy clouds and bright, celestial lights. So what actually is ...

A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

The elliptical galaxy NGC 4660 is one of a hundred galaxies imaged by Hubble that are members of the nearest large galaxy cluster to Earth, the Virgo Cluster. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has ...

The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) captures a tiny patch of sky in the Fornax constellation, revealing thousands of galaxies, some over 13 billion years old. This Hubble image captures HH111, a rare ...

Documenting the work of building the world’s largest neutrino experiment presents photographers with a unique set of ...