"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star ...

Previous examinations using ground-based tools as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes indicated SIMP 0136 was ...

The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show "3 ...

Over the last 10 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken pictures of Altjira and a 2011 study found that it appears as ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way ...

This Hubble image shows a bright, blue, newly formed star in the heart of a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors, creating a cavity. NGC ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C.

In 1994, the Hubble Space Telescope supposedly captured an image that corresponded, according to rumors at the time, to a celestial city that many claimed was heaven. Experts were quick to debunk ...

In fact, scientists didn't really expect that stars would even be able to still form at all in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, an image of which the James Webb Telescope recently captured in ...

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious. At the of age 30, he arrived at Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California just in time to use the new Hooker 100-inch telescope, at the time the largest ...

A dazzling spiral galaxy, UGC 5460, shines in this stunning Hubble image, revealing its star-filled bar, winding arms, and brilliant blue clusters. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Jacobson-Galán, A.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is being tapped to study an asteroid with a one-in-43 chance of colliding with Earth. On the slim chance it hits, experts say the impact could level a city or ...