Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! This task is somewhat less challenging around the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, Andromeda.

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous galaxy bursting with new star formation. This intermediate spiral galaxy is located about 50 million light-years from Earth in ...

A stunning halo of light in a nearby galaxy has been captured by Europe's Euclid space telescope. Known as the "Einstein ring," the halo exists in a galaxy about 590 million light-years away ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday ... Closer to home in our own Milky Way galaxy, Spherex will hunt for water and other ingredients of life in the icy clouds between ...