A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos to showcase over 200 million stars.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Space scientists have unveiled a cosmic bouquet in time for Valentine's Day. The new image includes data from several ...

Just as modern telescopes reveal the hidden structure of nebulae and star clusters, understanding the physics behind twilight ...

A galaxy in the distance, was tightly encircled by a halo of light—also known as an Einstein Ring, a result of gravitational ...

NASA's Pandora satellite mission to document at least 20 known planets orbiting distant stars will start from SpaceX at its ...

Hubble Space Telescope discovers galaxy with unprecedented nine rings formed by cosmic collision, located 567 million ...

This image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 is from the Frontier Fields project, using natural gravitational lenses and ...

Hubble’s high-resolution imagery allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm ...