Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...
The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...
The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. This galaxy is situated 40 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus, the Wolf, and ...
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 ...
The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.
Scientists have developed an impossibly thin telescope lens that addresses a key astronomical challenge in a new study funded ...
The Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) telescope has been imagined as a habitable planet hunter, but it could be so much ...