This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million ...

Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except ...

The Hubble Telescope has spotted an unusual spiral galaxy – 76 million light-years away – that resembles an eye ...

In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...

Created by a young star, the bipolar star-forming region Sharpless 2-106 in this Hubble image depicts how intense the ...

The James Webb space telescope had several stunning findings this year that changed how we understand the universe.

Quasars are awe-inspiring – among the brightest objects in the Universe, behind gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. Unlike other ...

The spot we see today isn’t the same one the Italian astronomer Cassini discovered centuries ago, research shows.

Peculiar Pair IC 4271: This new Hubble Space Telescope image of IC 4271, also known as Arp 40, is a curious pair of spiral galaxies some 800 million light-years away. A Jellyfish Galaxy Adrift: The ...

Billionaire aeronaut Jared Isaacman, the NewSpace superstar set to head NASA, says he envisions millions of space sojourners ...

See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years ...