This image is part of a wider system of depressions that spiral outward from the very center of Mars' north pole. Seen in context, you can see rippling troughs that curve and bend and slice outwards from the pole counterclockwise.

The Hubble Telescope released this glorious image of the spiral galaxy UGC 2885 on January 6. This image was made in part as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin.

They found massive black holes in 13 dwarf galaxies, which are now among the smallest galaxies known to host such massive black holes. In roughly half the galaxies, the black hole isn't at the galactic center, but instead is "wandering."

A newly found young star cluster on the outskirts of our Milky Way seems to be made of material from the Magellanic Clouds. It appears the collision between the Clouds and our Milky Way may already be starting.

When the 2 stars in the binary star system V Sagittae come together - around the year 2083, astronomers say - they'll create a star explosion called a nova. Then V Sagittae will temporarily outshine all the stars in our Milky Way galaxy.

The SOFIA flying telescope has captured a new panoramic image of the center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The image shows a region more than 600 light-years across, revealing unprecedented details within the center's dense swirls of gas and dust.

New observations of "super-puff" exoplanets by the Hubble Space Telescope have provided scientists with more clues about these enigmatic and strange worlds.

The red supergiant star Betelgeuse, a bright star in the constellation of Orion, has been making headlines due to a recent drop in brightness. Is an explosion imminent? If it happens, will Earth be affected?

We've known for some time that Venus has vast lava plains, fields of small lava domes, and large shield volcanoes. But does it still have active volcanoes? A new study involving lava flows on Venus suggests that, yes, it does.

New observations reveal that - about a billion years ago - the center of our Milky Way galaxy underwent a period of intense star formation, resulting in over 100,000 supernovae.