The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

LOFAR is a massive radio telescope that comprises 100,000 antennas spread across eight European countries. The researchers ...

Compact ruddy galaxies seen by the James Webb telescope confound astronomers. Having very little spin at birth may explain the galaxies’ small sizes.

The answer: There are approximately 2,000,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe – that’s 2 trillion. Astronomers don’t know ...

Illustration by NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel ... 2025. For more than a century, astronomers have watched the Andromeda galaxy, a massive swirl of neighboring stars, speed toward the ...

This galaxy is eye-catching. But the real twist is nearby. The galaxy on the other side is out of frame in this stunning photo from the Hubble Space Telescope, with the beautiful spiral galaxy NGC ...

NASA's Hubble captures a dreamy 'cotton candy cloud' view of a dwarf galaxy shining in the southern skies The LMC can be seen as a fuzzy patch in the southern sky. It's the Milky Way's largest ...

Photo Credit: NASA A young star-forming region is filled with wispy orange, red, and blue layers of gas and dust. Deep orange clouds of gas and dust swirl diagonally across this image.

Astronomers have observed a tidal disruption event, AT2024tvd, caused by a rogue supermassive black hole devouring a star far from its galaxy's center. This marks the first time a TDE has been ...

One of the new images shared by NASA shows Mars as seen from 61 million miles away. Thanks to Hubble’s unique ultraviolet capability, the image reveals wispy clouds of water ice hovering above ...