The Hubble Space Telescope captures stunning imagery of barred spiral galaxy UGC 678. The galaxy is located about 260 million ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy NGC 2283, which is located about 45 million light-years ...

Our galaxy and its nearest large companion, Andromeda, may be headed for a collision on a cosmic scale. What happens then?

When it comes to the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, there’s a whole “will they or won’t they” thing going on. In 2012 ...

Scientists believe galaxies like UGC 477 are largely dominated by dark matter.

If you're looking for something to do Memorial Day weekend and into May, why not try to catch a glimpse of a band of stars comprising the Milky Way?

If a night under the stars sounds like your ideal Memorial Day weekend plan, this could be a better holiday than usual ...

From spherical boulders and circular radio telescope dishes to the curve of our blue marble, distant Mars, and far-away ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A dying star has never looked so lovely. The Gemini North Telescope atop Hawaii’s tallest peak, ...

Neptune has only been visited by one spacecraft, NASA’s Voyager 2 in 1989. Nereid was discovered 40 years earlier by Dutch ...

UC Santa Cruz professor shares one of cosmology's highest honors with Alex Filippenko at UC Berkeley and Ken Nomoto at the ...