Hubble observations reveal a giant, turbulent planet-forming disk that may reshape theories of how planetary systems develop.
Andromeda is also a flattened spiral like the Milky Way, but it's twice as large — 220,000 light-years across versus 105,000 for the Milky Way — and crammed with a trillion suns. Can you even begin to ...
This faraway, ancient ball of stars may have been captured from another galaxy that passed too close to the Milky Way.
NASA’s Hubble has examined Cloud-9, a strange object with no stars that offers clues about early galaxy formation and dark ...
The infrared space telescope also detected water vapor, carbon dioxide and organic compounds streaming from the departing ...
A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch in May 2027 with a 288MP camera, will “unveil the cosmos to the edge of the observable universe” ...
The new study, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, focused on the Hubble Legacy Archive and a dataset built from it: 99.6 ...
Known as blue straggler stars, these age-defying celestial objects have mystified astronomers for more than 70 years. "Blue stragglers are anomalously massive core hydrogen-burning stars that, ...
New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed surprising activity inside the Andromeda galaxy. The data ...
Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...