Dive into a celestial masterpiece with the Hubble Space Telescope's latest snapshot of the Large Magellanic Cloud, showcasing ...
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...
Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...
The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding faster than predicted by ...
Artist Ashley Zelinskie's new VR work is called "Twin Quasar." Two roads diverge between a pair of quasars, and I'm sorry I can't travel both — actually, wait, I can travel both.
Discover the stunning 2500-megapixel photomosaic of Andromeda, created from 600 Hubble photos, showcasing the telescope's ...
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
Our sun is a lonely star. At least half the stars in our galaxy have binary companions. This was nicely illustrated in the ...
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...