The M83 galaxy as seen in submillimeter wavelengths (left) and visible light (right).

The Roman telescope is NASA’s newest space observatory. Every 10 months, it will get the equivalent of about 1000 years' worth of Hubble observations. Will it find the answers to our questions about ...

The University of Houston has a deep connection to space exploration. The institution established its Clear Lake campus to ...

The Milky Way may have emerged from a crowded cosmic environment filled with thousands of smaller galaxies, many of them unlike anything visible in our galactic neighborhood today. A new generation of ...

In the early days of the universe, our home looked very different from how it does today. Back then, the region in our ...

Extragalactic globular clusters millions of light-years away are hiding in your astroimages. Here’s how to find them.

The young universe may have become chemically enriched far earlier than astronomers once believed. Observations from NASA’s ...

When the universe was still in its infancy—only 500 million years after the Big Bang, or about 3% of its current age—some of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nā 'Uhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola is the Hawaiian name given to this image of NGC 7253 — a pair of spiral galaxies caught in each ...

The ESA (European Space Agency) has revealed an example of gravitational lensing, in which enormous celestial objects bend and magnify light from a more distant object in the background ...

The Space Race is on. While Houston and UCF is not an official rivalry, it’s certainly heading in that direction. UCF has branded itself as “Space U” since 2017, famously hosting an annual Space Game ...

NASA's new PRIMA Space Telescope will search for clues to some of the most perplexing mysteries of the cosmos.