A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda ...

The Andromeda galaxy is the galaxy next door, a very faint, fuzzy thing in the night sky, larger than a full moon. Textbooks ...

Some observatories that used to be dark and remote are now adjacent to bright urban centers. And sending all telescopes into ...

Einstein's theory posits that mass distorts space. This distortion can bend light from distant objects. Astronomers use this ...

NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of the swirling spiral galaxy NGC 3285B, located 137 million light-years away in the Hydra constellation.

The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured this image of a nebula known as GN 04.32.8 within a larger stellar nursery ...

The Hubble Space Telescope spies a stellar nursery in the Taurus Molecular Cloud nebula.

Stars are more colorful than you think! Patience will reveal them; head outside tonight to see summer’s multi-hued stars.

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, may not be alone. And its potential companion may be responsible for ...

This globular cluster lies inside the Large Magellanic Cloud. It’s a small satellite galaxy orbiting our Milky Way. NGC 1786 ...