These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.

The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.

In 1923, Edwin Hubble captured a pulsing star within the Andromeda Galaxy on a glass photographic plate, revealing for the first time that galaxies exist beyond our own Milky Way. By the 1960s ...

The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new ... light-years from Earth in the constellation Lupus. The Hubble Space Telescope captured a new image of NGC 5530, which ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

Why it's so special: The Milky Way often appears as a reddish, pinkish and bluish-white arc across the night sky, but this new super-long exposure image from South Africa's ground-based MeerKAT ...