Dark energy is still a mystery, but powerful new telescopes are set to uncover clues. With NASA and ESA leading the charge, ...

Nature of the nebulae In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars. For the next 300 years ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside our galaxy.

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars ... made by Henrietta Swan Leavitt 10 years earlier.

One of the adorable images shows the future star posing with her brother Ben. Taken in 1973, when the actress was just five, Naomi, her hair cut in a fashionable bob, brandishes her familiar smile.

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic collision. NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy ...

Protests against President Donald Trump's incoming administration took place on Monday in several cities across the U.S., including New York, Los Angeles and Boston, as well as in locations in ...

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli is keeping the door open for his government to meet with Star and work out a way forward. Picture: NewsWire / John Gass The jobs of 9000 Star Entertainment ...

LEAVITT: It was an amazing sight to watch, to see him go back into the Oval Office for the first time. All of his decor is there once again. It’s the same. You see those family photos behind him ...

V1 is a rare type of pulsating star called a Cepheid variable, which serves as a cosmic distance marker. Decades earlier, astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered that ... Hubble captures ...