Magnetars are among the rarest—and weirdest—denizens of the galactic zoo. They have powerful magnetic fields and may be the ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has discovered the most distant known spiral galaxy to date.

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off from Kennedy Space Center, carrying the new Hubble Space Telescope ...

This time, the focus is on the remains of a star that exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the ...

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the ...