A Distant Supernova Discovery This latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope features a distant galaxy located about 600 ...

The U.S. Postal Service launched two new Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express stamps today at the Big Sky, Montana, Post ...

ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1559. It is about 35 million light ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

(WIFR) - The United States Postal Service debuts two new stamp designs celebrating deep space. Both stamps feature extremely ...

Greg Breeding, an art director for USPS, designed the stamp with an image from NASA, the European Space Agency, the Canadian ...

Gas and dust within the image, captured in infrared light by the Webb Telescope's filters, cascade like billowing pink, ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that this so-called "spiral nebula" was actually very far outside our own Milky Way galaxy — at a distance of approximately 2.5 million light-years or ...

Using the aging Hubble Space Telescope, Achenbach spotted an unusual spiral galaxy quasar with a visible jet. This calls into ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...