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 ...

More than 500 galaxies seen in today’s release seem to experience strong lensing, where the galaxy’s gravity warps the light of another behind it. This is manifested in the panoramic pictures ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much ... I thought of when looking at today's image of the Milky Way Galaxy's center. The main image showcases ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A bright star located about 10,000 light-years from Earth overlaps with the bright core of a ...

The rare cosmic phenomenon, called an Einstein ring, occurs when massive objects can bend light due to their gravitational ...

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which astronomers have already used to find hundreds of strong gravitational lenses ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms. A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The starburst galaxy NGC 4536, seen here in a photo by the Hubble Space Telescope, has bright ...