Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

A new Hubble Space Telescope image offers the most detailed view of the Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years from ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Newly-processed image of Small Magellanic Cloud star cluster shows that this old space telescope can still impress with its ...

This new image showcases NGC 346, a dazzling young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud. ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Nota, P. Massey, E. Sabbi, C. Murray, M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble) This month sees a ...

Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC 418 lies about 2000 light-years from Earth in the constellation ...

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

While studying observations of a large sample of nearly 80 dwarf galaxies from the Hubble Space Telescope, which was led by Prof. Francine Marleau at the University of Innsbruck, Austria ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the planetary nebula Kohoutek 4-55. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

If you've been wondering how long the day on Uranus is, you probably need to get out more. But if you have, you'll be ...