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.
Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...
Mapping Pluto Broken Heart | This image was taken by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on the morning ...
The findings suggest that the formation of stars in the early universe was much quicker than previously thought.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...
The James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic "red monster" galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They're ...
A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two tangled galaxies, whose interactions have caused knots to form in the ...
Astrophysicists have developed a theoretical model that could be used to estimate how likely it is for intelligent life to ...
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a ...
The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.
Uranus is unique as it rotates on its side, at roughly a 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. The planet takes 84 years to orbit the Sun. An animated GIF showing Uranus' magnetic field. The ...