The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

A picturesque galaxy 40 million light-years away, NGC 5530 dazzles with its patchy spiral arms in the constellation Lupus.

A breathtaking cosmic dance unfolds as the Webb Telescope captures a star's birth, set against a spiral galaxy's mesmerizing ...

The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which ...

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

Helix Nebula: This a planetary nebula, which is formed when a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. Orion Nebula ...

Cosmic microwave background data support cosmology’s standard model but retain a mystery about the universe’s expansion rate.

Astrophysicists Capture Astonishing Images of Gamma-Ray Flare from Supermassive ... astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive ...

In celebration of the 29th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers used Hubble to capture this festive, colorful look at the tentacled Southern Crab Nebula. The Hubble ...