A reddish star is about to pass through a "beehive" of stars. That "star" is actually one of Earth's planetary neighbors.

On Thursday, April 24, 2025, the Hubble Space Telescope will celebrate 35 years in space. Can it still hold its own and prove ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Once mistaken for a fuzzy star cluster, the stunning Squid Galaxy—formally known as Messier 77—has transformed in the eyes of ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare kind of galaxy that seems to be missing one of the universe’s most important ingredients: ...

Here's what will be visible in the night sky in the United States in May 2025. On May 12, the skies will be treated to the Flower Moon, also known as the Corn Planting Moon, Milk Moon, Hare's Moon and ...

The world's most famous telescope is celebrating in style with new views of Mars, nebulas and a galaxy that reminds us of home.

NGC 2002: An open star cluster that resides roughly 160,000 light-years away from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. In this Hubble Space Telescope image ...

Captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, this image centers on the spiral galaxy IC 4633. Situated about 8,000 light-years from Earth, the star cluster Pismis 24 is embedded within the ...

Astronomers have solved a cosmic mystery, revealing the long-hidden object that collided with the Perseus cluster in a vast ... from the Euclid and XRISM space telescopes strongly support our ...