"It was so stunning to not just see the auroras, but the detail and clarity of the signature really shocked me." ...

Feb. 19, 2025 — Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered 36 new dwarf galaxies around Andromeda and ongoing star formation within them, contradicting previous theories. They appear to undergo unique evolution ...

What are you, SIMP 0136? Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way galaxy. It's rapidly spinning, and at some 13 ...

Researchers are uncertain about how this black hole formed. Possible explanations include past galaxy mergers ejecting nearby stars, powerful jets preventing new star formation, or the black hole ...

NGC 5042, a stunning spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra, is beautifully captured in this Hubble image. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker NGC 5042 is a breathtaking spiral galaxy showcasing a ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a beautiful new image of the intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 5042. NGC 5042 is located around 48 million light-years away from Earth ...

Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the Andromeda Galaxy like bees have been caught on camera by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took more than a thousand orbits of the Earth to take enough ...

Update: NASA is now targeting a launch for Friday, March 7. Find the latest information on the mission here. How did the universe begin? How do planets form and galaxies develop? Could life exist ...

"It was actually a total surprise to find the satellites in that configuration and we still don’t fully understand why they appear that way." Dozens of dwarf galaxies swarming around the ...

NASA is set to launch SPHEREx, a groundbreaking telescope that will create the most precise and colorful map of the universe. This telescope will capture detailed spectroscopic images in infrared ...