A photo shared on social media authentically showed the Helix Nebula captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. A photo ...

Astronomers have known for a century that the universe is expanding. We can now trace this expansion over much of its almost ...

A composite of galaxy cluster known as MACS0416 created using James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope imagery.

Two different space telescopes have looked at the same galaxy, so you can see the difference in how they observe the universe ...

The findings reveal that the inner disk touching the young star is extraordinarily hot, challenging conventional ...

Did you know? Jupiter is so massive that it could fit 1300 Earths inside of it. Reportedly, it has a diameter of 142,984 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 4694, a galaxy that possesses unusual properties that complicate its ...

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.

In 1936, astronomers saw a puzzling event in the constellation Orion: the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) became a hundred ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy, named UGC 10043. We don’t see the galaxy’s spiral arms ...

This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way ...

One of the greatest astronomer's, who changed our entire understanding of the universe, was born 135 years ago today ...