"The protostars are midway down the path to becoming mature stars." Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the ...

When Pagan and DePasquale first receive the images, they appear in black and white. The colors are added to the image later, ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

The Hubble Telescope has spotted an unusual spiral galaxy – 76 million light-years away – that resembles an eye ...

In a newly shared image, NASA has uncovered a unique view of our solar system's largest planet. The picture, snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals Jupiter shining in ultraviolet light.

Cosmic Leviathan: A galaxy cluster, resembling a submerged sea monster, distorts spacetime around it, as captured by the ...

"The biggest surprise was seeing the distinct spiral shape in the Hubble Space Telescope images. At first I was worried I had made an error," said Achenbach. This galaxy still has the spiral arms ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is known for looking deep into the universe with an ... you might see something that resembles the images from telescopes that see the universe visual light, like the ...