"The protostars are midway down the path to becoming mature stars." Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the ...
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
The ever-faithful Hubble Space Telescope has been deployed on many missions over its 34 years in service, and helped us ...
Discover the fascinating story of the 'blue lurker,' a mysterious star in the M67 star cluster studied by NASA's Hubble ...
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 ...
Hubble captured an exploding star about 650 million light-years from Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation ...
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 ...
Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...
In addition to helping the researchers nail down the nebula's ellipsoidal structure, the 3D model also confirmed that the ...
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 ...