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These sinister yet hauntingly beautiful eyes appear in a new Halloween-themed image, using data from both the Hubble Space ...
The telescope may well have outdone itself by revealing evidence of life on a world about 120 light years from Earth.
Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...
At ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, visitors can experience some of the darkest and clearest night skies ...
"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...
ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.
From spellbinding images to groundbreaking scientific discoveries, we look back on some of Hubble's most exciting milestones.
A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...
Astronomers confirm a wandering black hole in our galaxy’s Sagittarius region using Hubble and Gaia microlensing data.
A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...
Astronomers say the extreme magnetic field of Magnetar SGR 0501+4516 could ‘rip apart every atom inside the body’ ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a rare "Einstein ring," revealing two distant galaxies in an optical illusion ...