Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has peered deeper than ever into a quasar, revealing a bunch of “weird” features in its […] ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

Since Hubble’s launch, astronomers have discovered over 1 trillion galaxies, but Andromeda stands out as the closest and most ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Ancient ‘white dwarf’ stars explode and die in more ways than was thought, and observing these violent cosmic deaths could ...

Feb. 7, 2025 — 'Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new ... Largest Radio Jet Ever ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

A brilliant stellar explosion has been captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The supernova, a bright blue dot, was spotted in the distant galaxy’s outer disk. Located in the Gemini ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an incredible image of a galaxy that looks an awful lot like a bullseye. "This was a ...