NASA has turned off its Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) after a decade of operations in which the ...

The Ring Nebula's distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new obs...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a beautiful image of spiral galaxy IC 2233 -- one o...

Tau Ceti - a Sun-like star lying at a distance of twelve light years from Earth - could be hosting f...

NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found that high-speed jets launched ...

Astronomers claim to have spotted a new loose spiral galaxy filled with gas and dust, using the NASA...

A team of astronomers have worked out precise distances of a large sample of galaxy clusters that ma...

In a new breakthrough, astronomers have discovered the farthest galaxy which appears as a diminutive...

A team of international astronomers has noticed a 'cosmic slump' wherein the rate formation of new s...