This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the cosmic tangle that is MCG+05-31-045, a pair of interacting galaxies located 390 million light-years away and a part of the Coma galaxy cluster.
The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...
A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.
Hubble Space Telescope imagery Neptune has revealed that the planet's clouds are disappearing. Credit: NASA Goddard Space ...
The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...
The LMC is a dwarf galaxy, relatively close to the Earth (in galactic terms) at around 160,000 light years away. That may ...
A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a leading center for robotic space exploration run by NASA and the California Institute ...
NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...
Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...
A team of astronomers has discovered a link between black holes and stellar eruptions, suggesting the potential existence of ...