A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by researchers including István Szapudi of the University of ...

Once mistaken for a fuzzy star cluster, the stunning Squid Galaxy—formally known as Messier 77—has transformed in the eyes of astronomers over the centuries. Originally discovered in the 1700s by ...

The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world ...

Uranus Findings Can Aid the Study of Exoplanets Now more than 30 years into its mission, the Hubble Space Telescope has ...

"We were surprised by the streams of light that were visible near the center of the galaxies, as nothing similar has been ...

A new way to measure the length of Uranus’s day could also help determine the rotation rates of other celestial ...

Uranus seemed like a fairly calm, blue-green planet. But new findings from Hubble paint a different picture of Uranus.

When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and destructive event, throwing out an explosion of heat and light — but it can create stunning new forms as well. A gorgeous new ...

A long-simmering disagreement over the universe’s present-day expansion rate shows no signs of resolution, leaving experts ...

Researchers from the University of Waterloo have proposed a new method to measure the Hubble constant that could help resolve ...

A bright star located in the Milky Way appears nestled in the distant galaxy NGC 5530 due to a chance alignment along the ...