This Hubble Space Telescope image shows LEDA 42160, a galaxy about 52 million light-years from Earth. The dwarf galaxy is one ...

Lightspeed travel is a popular concept in sci-fi and pop culture, but it's not a technology we are likely to see anytime soon ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two tangled galaxies, whose interactions have caused knots to form in the ...

Gravitationally lensed quasar: This picture shows a quasar that has been gravitationally lensed by a galaxy in the foreground ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

American astronomer Dr. Frank Drake came up with an equation in the 1960s to calculate the number of detectable ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...

A team of astronomers has discovered a link between black holes and stellar eruptions, suggesting the potential existence of ...

The Methuselah star is the oldest star in the universe, estimated to be 16 billion years old. Read to follow the discussion ...

A novel theoretical model based on universal expansion and star formation suggests that our universe might not have the ...