"The Hubble tension is now a Hubble crisis." The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that the Coma Cluster of galaxies is 38 million light-years closer than it should ...

Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda ...

Now, astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture hundreds of ... foreground stars in our Milky Way galaxy, and two background galaxies far beyond Andromeda (shown in yellowish ...

The success of SpaceX and other private-sector space firms is throwing up hard questions about America's "great national ...

A galaxy in the distance, was tightly encircled by a halo of light—also known as an Einstein Ring, a result of gravitational ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive ... A - Clusters bright blue stars embedded within the galaxy, background galaxies seen much farther away, and photobombing by ...

Commemorated initially by the Hubble Space Telescope’s images in 1995 ... the James Webb Space Telescope images of the Pillars show several galaxies in the background. That is because the dense ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say.

This artist's concept visualizes a super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.