Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

The cause of the strange blue spiral is actually a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off from Space Launch Complex 40 ...

One of the first verified predictions of general relativity is the gravitational deflection of starlight. The effect was ...

Believe it or not, we've seen a few optical illusions in space over the year. Well, we haven't seen them – the Hubble telescope has. NASA has been sharing photographs depicting unusual phenomena among ...

For example, there is an interesting outcrop feature (at the ... The galaxy that appears by happenstance at the tip of HH 49/50 is a much more distant, face-on spiral galaxy. It has a prominent ...

At the heart of a massive spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away, researchers have detected one of the most intense examples of black hole activity ever seen in a galaxy of this type ...

This new composite image combining observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) provides a high-resolution view to explore the ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

The position of this Great Filter, as he named it, is critically important as we contemplate the future of humanity. If the ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...