The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

Earth’s beautiful northern and southern lights are the result of auroras: when high-energy charged particles from the sun hit ...

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 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 ...

This image also incorporates data from two of the Hubble Space Telescope's instruments, the Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys. You can see and read more about another Einstein ...

The image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 2566: The galaxy filling the frame in this James Webb Space Telescope image is NGC 2566, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Puppis.

A light-year is equivalent to almost 6 trillion miles. Launched in 2021 as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb observed the scene in the infrared. NASA said in a statement it was ...