This stunning Hubble view of spiral galaxy UGC 11397 captures more than graceful arms and glowing stars—it hides a ravenous ...

In its debut, the telescope turned its eye toward two familiar showstoppers in deep space: the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas in ...

The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly ...

The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral ...

The face-on spiral galaxy NGC 1566 ... The images were collected as part of a long-running collaboration known as the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby Galaxies program — or ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed Herbig-Haro 49/50, an outflow from a nearby still-forming star, in high-resolution near- and mid-infrared light. The intricate features of the outflow, ...

Scientists spot high-speed galaxy collision 11 billion light-years away: 'We hence call this system the cosmic joust' NASA diagnoses fracture in a 'huge cosmic bone' using X-ray observatory ...

The USPS will celebrate the continued exploration of deep space with an extremely high-definition image of a spiral galaxy 32 million light years from Earth -- an image that will be affixed to a new ...

This galaxy was observed earlier this year as part of the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) program, a large project that includes observations from several space- and ...

In this way, he obtained some of the first high-resolution pictures of prominent deep-sky objects such as the Pleiades (M45), Andromeda, the Triangulum Galaxy (M33), the Veil Nebula, and dozens more.