Over 40 stars in a galaxy billions of light-years away were photographed, offering a glimpse into an era when the universe ...

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 ...

The artist, who rose to prominence in New York’s downtown scene in the 1980s, creates manic, space-themed scenes with little ...

One of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize, the Queen offers observers many worthy sights.

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

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

Carl Sagan famously said, "We are made of star-stuff," but even he didn't realize just how far that star stuff traveled ...

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

The materials that make up your body are intergalactic voyagers that have existed beyond the limits of the Milky Way.

Telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope can observe some incredibly distant galaxies, stretching all the ...

I’ve used this fact a gazillion times; every atom in your body has been through the core of a star! The carbon in our bones ...