The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured spectacular images of the Red Spider Nebula, showcasing its fiery red hues and spider-like structure. The nebula has a prominent two-lobed shape, possibly due ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers ...

NASA's James Webb telescope has captured an incredible image in its 'best ever detail' - but something about the discovery is ...

Vivian Poulin asks if the tension between a direct measurement of the Hubble constant and constraints from the early universe ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

NGC 4536 is a starburst galaxy with rapid star formation due to gas compression. Its bar-like structure channels gas toward ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

Webb captured an Einstein ring formed by a distant galaxy's light bending around a closer one. This rare alignment magnifies ...

During the lecture at the Rio Theatre, Bob Williams — a scientist who was at the center of creating the Hubble Deep Space ...