The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot in 2023 and 2024. Credit: NASA, ESA, J.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have observed a supermassive galactic open cluster designated Westerlund ...

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a cosmic Bullseye galaxy, revealing evidence of a rare kind of galactic collision.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Westerlund 2 cluster marks Hubble's 25th year in orbit, celebrating 25 years of discoveries, stunning images, and groundbreaking science. The Hubble ...

In the century since Hubble's pioneering work, astronomers like me have learned that the universe is vast and contains trillions of galaxies. In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad Hubble’s work opened ... Nature of the nebulae In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way ...