The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world ...

A quiet neighbour of the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), appears to be falling apart. And scientists say they ...

An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made new measurements of Uranus’ interior rotation rate with a novel technique, achieving a level of accuracy 1 000 ...

Hubble captures dwarf galaxies merging in real-time, confirming long-theorized star cluster collisions. These events unlock ...

Uranus seemed like a fairly calm, blue-green planet. But new findings from Hubble paint a different picture of Uranus.

Astronomers have reached deeper into the heart of a brilliant cosmic engine than ever before, using NASA’s Hubble Space ...

A new way to measure the length of Uranus’s day could also help determine the rotation rates of other celestial ...

The new data of Uranus' interior rotation rate has a level of accuracy 1,000 times greater than previous estimates.

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Aurora lights on Uranus helped NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope measure the planet’s interior rotation rate, changing what astronomers know about how long a day is on the cold and windy world.

In recent years, one of the most troubling puzzles in astrophysics has grown more urgent. Scientists have realized that the ...

Discover the intriguing space explosion predicted in a rare double white dwarf system just 160 light-years away from Earth.