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

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the ...

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

NGC 4536 is a starburst galaxy with rapid star formation due to gas compression. Its bar-like structure channels gas toward ...

Believe it or not, we've seen a few optical illusions in space over the year. Well, we haven't seen them – the Hubble ...

NASA’s Hubble captures NGC 4536, a starburst galaxy in Virgo with intense star formation and glowing gas clouds.

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 universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system, and we're finding that the Kuiper Belt may be no exception!" ...

The Hubble Space Telescope “has observed some fascinating cosmic wonder every day of the year, including on your birthday& ...

Vivian Poulin asks if the tension between a direct measurement of the Hubble constant and constraints from the early universe ...

The new initiative will help students in rural areas learn more about astronomy. Can it inspire the next generation of ...