For Hubble’s 35th anniversary, ESA has unveiled breathtaking new images of the star cluster Messier 72, a celestial gem located in Aquarius. Once the very first image featured in the Hubble Picture of ...

Budget cuts hitting U.S. government agencies like NASA don't seem promising for the Hubble Space Telescope, but there is ...

The image is a mosaic stitched from multiple Hubble observations since the galaxy's size exceeds Hubble's narrow field of ...

Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may have cracked this puzzle, finding the first evidence of a ...

Apr. 16, 2025 — Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Hubble Space Telescope captured detailed images of the spiral galaxy NGC 4941, located 67 million light-years away in Virgo. The observations focus on star ...

If our galaxy lies inside such a void, that could explain why local measurements of the Hubble constant seem too high. Galaxies inside a void experience a gravitational pull outward, flowing ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of NGC 4941, a spiral galaxy located approximately 67 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. This relatively close ...

Born from cosmic fire, it cooled down as space expanded. Soon, matter clumped together as gravity began to pull. Galaxies emerged from vast clouds of gas, surrounded by dense fog. As they formed, they ...

New Delhi: Twelve billion years ago, in the infancy of the universe, a massive spiral galaxy was already spinning. Known as the "Big Wheel," this galaxy has taken astronomers by surprise, forming much ...

Astronomers have now spotted a colossal spiral galaxy — nicknamed the Big Wheel — that formed far earlier than science ever expected. Discovered through the keen eyes of the James Webb Space ...

A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang, which gave birth to the universe some 13.8 ...