"The protostars are midway down the path to becoming mature stars." Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the ...
Discover the fascinating story of the 'blue lurker,' a mysterious star in the M67 star cluster studied by NASA's Hubble ...
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
James Woods has lost his Pacific Palisades home in the Southern California fires that continue to devastate parts of Los ...
"We have by and large been ignoring triples in models and simulations — we're just starting to understand how these types of ...
NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark ...
The name "blue lurker" might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that ...
A planetary nebula in Sagittarius, 3000 light-years away, features waves 100 billion kilometres high, caused by supersonic shocks from a hot star's stellar winds. Hubble's image of the Carina Nebula ...
Pop quiz: how old is the Hubble Space Telescope? I asked a dozen people this and everyone was at least a few years out, even though most of them have at least a passing interest in science and tech in ...
NGC 5548 is a turbulent galaxy that exhibits complex absorption features and X-ray spectral variations. The "obscurer" is an outflowing stream of weakly ionized gas that was discovered in 2007. AFGL ...
The picture, snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals Jupiter shining in ultraviolet light. In the image, Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot, which appears red in visible light, is a instead a ...