Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy ...

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Gemini North telescope and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility observations of Neptune and Uranus may have revealed why they differ in color. Credit: Directed by: Bethany ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

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Named Kohoutek 4-55, the nebula was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Planetary nebulae like Kohoutek 4-55 are the ...

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 ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE mission, to make infrared observations. This was the latest in a line of space-based, infrared observatories, and it cost about ...

"The new model can account for both structure formation and stability, and the key observational properties of the expansion of the universe at large." ...

Theoretically, Sunbird's tremendous speeds could cut mission times to Mars in half, from seven to eight months to about four.

In a first, astronomers have directly imaged a young Sun-like star and the two giant planets that orbit it using European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT).