Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old as time itself.

On Wednesday evening, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy, announced a major investment in not just one ...

Weitang Liang, Qi Yang and Chuhong Yu holding their photo The Andromeda Core. [Provided to China Daily] A former category winner from China in one of the world's top photography competitions has gone ...

This mash-up of data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals two galaxies mid-collision, with their spiral arms overlapping and bending toward their neighbors' ...

Day 19 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Sombrero Galaxy. First discovered in 1781 by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain, the Sombrero Galaxy lies about 30 million light-years away, ...

Astronomers and cosmologists aren’t known for being incredible at adjectives. Take the Very Large Telescope, or the European Extremely Large Telescope, or even the big bang. But they weren’t wrong ...

On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Simon Marius. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The Andromeda ...

Day 13 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Sea of Galaxies. The James Webb Space Telescope pointed its Near-Infrared Camera toward the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223 and captured this ...

Eros will pass within 2 degrees of the Andromeda Galaxy's core on Nov. 30. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Celestron NexStar ...