Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy ...
Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 2566, which sits 76 million light-years away in the constellation ...
A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...
See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years ...
Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...
A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.
This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.
Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside our galaxy.
Astrophotographers use sophisticated imaging technology to take and edit photographs that bring us the cosmos with startling ...
Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...
New measurements reveal the Coma Cluster is 38 million light-years closer, worsening the Hubble tension crisis and challenging cosmology models.