Hubble’s updated view of NGC 3370, richer in light and detail than ever before, deepens our understanding of both the galaxy and the cosmos itself. This new Hubble Picture of the Week highlights a ...

The cataclysmic explosion that spawned the supernova remnant simultaneously gave rise to a superdense pulsar, which was ...

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer’s image of the “Raging Baboon Nebula” in Corona Australis reveals a baboon-like face with blue ...

Hanging below the vast cosmic heart is a knot of dust and gas known informally as the Fishhead Nebula, thanks to its vaguely ...

NASA has unveiled a breathtaking new image showing what appears to be a massive “cosmic hand” stretching across 150 light-years of space, created by one of the galaxy’s most powerful electromagnetic ...

A composite image of X-ray, radio, and optical light data from the "cosmic hand" nebula leaves open questions about the interaction that created it. Credit: NASA / CXC / S. Zhang et al / ATNF / CSIRO ...

In early 2004, the Hubble Space Telescope (which turned 30 this year) gained iconic status by giving us the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF): a window into the early cosmos showcasing 10,000 of galaxies ...

The joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope recently observed the remnants of a dying star shedding its outer layers. The resulting colorful cloud is known as ...

A massive, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy cluster in question is Abell 209, located 2.8 billion light-years away in ...

July 10 (UPI) --NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed thick, dusty layers of the Cat's Claw Nebula, a region of star formation about 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius, the ...