Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious event that could reveal the existence of a “rogue planet” drifting through ...

The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

This spectacular star-forming region is one of the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

The image reveals swirling gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula-our nearby universe’s most prolific star factory, 160,000 ...

Inspired by superconductivity, a strange new theory that seeks to explain dark matter might explain dark energy, too ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest the cosmos may be much older than once believed. For ...