The record-breaking winds are circling the nearby "puffy" exoplanet WASP-127b, and are traveling six times faster than the ...

Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...

The future of galaxies remains one of the most interesting topics for experts. In fact, they will not survive the passage of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

We can judge the value of any scientific endeavour based on how much of our knowledge it overturns or transforms.

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has officially ceased its scientific operations after 12 years of service ...

High radiation during a time of frenzied star formation in the Milky Way left one stellar population with few chances to form planets, a study reports.

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...