It sports a glowing bar in its core, majestically winding spiral arms, and clouds of dark dust across it. Numerous glowing, ...

A stunning image of a 'barely visible' galaxy with 40 billion stars was photographed from Abu Dhabi on Friday, October ...

The terminator sweeps across the Moon, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS continues to wow, and Jupiter reaches a stationary point in ...

It doesn’t matter where the astronomers and their devices bother to look, they see basically the same thing. Every celestial object outside our solar system is apparently trying to get as far away ...

If you’re thinking of a galaxy, the image in your head is probably the Andromeda Galaxy! Read more about our closest galactic ...

Sharpen your eye and build your knowledge of clusters, nebulae, galaxies, and more with this list of popular objects for ...

"Do you feel lost looking at this Picture of the Week?" European Southern Observatory (ESO) wrote in a statement accompanying ...

Among the most striking is a composite image of Sun, captured using three specialized telescopes; NuSTAR, XRT, and AIA ...

In a monumental achievement, astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope have created the most comprehensive infrared map of the Milky Way, featuring over 1.5 billion cosmic ...

Cosmic dust and gas are the building blocks of planetary systems. The images of the Cone Nebula, Orion Nebula, and NGC 2467, ...

Purple, pink and a light orange create a dreamlike sunset in the picture "Berlin" by Sekundante. The blurred train in the ...

Many astronomers think in 5 billion years, the sun will puff up and engulf Earth. But a new observation is challenging that ...