See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years ...

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside our galaxy.

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

Instead of finding the radio burst in a region of young stars, researchers traced its origin to the outskirts of a “dead” ...

The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that the Coma Cluster of galaxies is 38 million ...

Fast radio bursts are mysterious and brief flashes of radio emissions that were thought to be produced by magnetars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars. Yet magnetars appear primarily in young ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered mysterious "little red dots" scattered across the early universe. Could these ...

There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University ...

The Andromeda galaxy, our closest large galactic neighbor, is a treasure trove of stars and cosmic mysteries. Thanks to ...

In addition to helping the researchers nail down the nebula's ellipsoidal structure, the 3D model also confirmed that the ...