New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.

The Firefly Sparkle Galaxy is the first Milky Way-sized galaxy to ever be found while still in the process of forming.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected and "weighed" a galaxy - seen 600 million years after the Big Bang - that is ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...

But the state-of-the-art space observatory has recently imaged two grand design spiral galaxies, and one appears to be the ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies ...

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.

You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round ...

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...