NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided the first visual evidence of the Milky Way's formative ye...

Astronomers have for the first time seen an asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust radiating fro...

NASA's Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes are teaming up to look deeper into the universe ...

In a first, astronomers have found a water-rich rocky planetary body outside our Solar System with b...

NASA's Hubble space telescope has discovered the largest known population of globular star clusters ...

Astronomers have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of Magellanic Stream - a ribbon of gas stret...

The moon, designated S/2004 N 1, is the fourteenth moon of the blue-green giant planet and is estima...

Astronomers, while making visible-light observations using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, have found...

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