Compact ruddy galaxies seen by the James Webb telescope confound astronomers. Having very little spin at birth may explain the galaxies’ small sizes.

Astronomers have been trying to detect atmospheres on planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, but bursts of radiation from the star make ...

Thirty years later, Hubble continues to fascinate. Its famous images have helped astronomers answer some of space’s biggest questions, from How old is the universe? (13.8 billion years old) to ...

For more than a century, astronomers have watched the Andromeda galaxy, a massive swirl of neighboring stars, speed toward the Milky Way. And in recent years, measurements using the Hubble Space ...

A New Type of Propulsion Could Revolutionize Space Travel Nuclear engines are the future of spaceflight, but exactly which kind is still up for debate. By Darren Orf Published: Jun 06, 2025 9:30 ...

Space Not quite, but some astronomers think they've spotted a new dwarf planet In searching for the elusive Planet Nine, researchers instead turned up a different resident in our cosmic backyard.

Japan-based company Ispace will attempt to safely land its Resilience spacecraft on the moon this week after the lunar lander spent months in orbit.

Milky Way galaxy might not collide with Andromeda after all Astronomers ran 100,000 computer simulations using combined Hubble/Gaia space telescope data.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a luminous tangle of stars and dust called the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1385, located about 30 million light-years away. Hubble released an ...

Dozens of NASA space missions could be axed under Trump's budget: Here's a look at 6 The budget request proposes slashing NASA funding by nearly 25% mostly by eliminating a significant portion of ...

New data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has created uncertainty in the theory that the Milky Way and Andromeda will collide and merge.