GN-z11 is an exceptionally luminous galaxy that existed when our Universe was only 420 million years old, making it one of the earliest and most distant...
NASA has released a beautiful photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the spiral galaxy NGC 4423.
This Hubble image shows NGC 4423, a spiral galaxy...
New images from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft show the terrain surrounding the permanent north polar ice...
For decades, astronomers have known that the powerful light emitted by massive stars can disrupt the swirling planetary disk of dust and gas around young...
The reionization of the Universe occurred some 500 to 900 million years after the Big Bang. It represents the transformation of neutral hydrogen into ionized...
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new photo of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1559.
This Webb image shows NGC 1559, a barred spiral...
Our Sun lies within 300 parsecs (around 1,000 light-years) of the 2,700-parsec- (around 9,000-light-year-) long sinusoidal chain of dense gas clouds known...
This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the globular cluster NGC 1841, which is found within the Large Magellanic Cloud.
This...
SN 1987A is the only supernova visible to the naked eye in the last 400 years and the most studied supernova in history. The event was a core-collapse...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacular image of the dwarf spiral galaxy IC 3476, which is found in the constellation...
The formation of galaxies by gradual hierarchical co-assembly of baryons and cold dark matter halos is a fundamental paradigm underpinning modern astrophysics...
The icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake have surfaces bearing methane ice of unknown origin. According to an analysis of data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James...
The JuMBO 24 binary system resides in the Orion Nebula, a diffuse nebula located approximately 1,350 light-years away in the constellation of Orion.
Free-floating...
Technosignatures are any measurable property that may provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI)...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured this vivid image of IRAS 16562-3959, a beautiful star-forming region in the constellation...
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have observed seven interacting galaxy systems that have long, tadpole-like tidal tails of gas,...
A dazzling new photo from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the luminous blue compact galaxy ESO 185-IG013, which is found in the constellation...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of the spiral galaxy UGC 3912.
This Hubble image shows UGC 3912,...
New insights from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope upend theories of how black holes shape the cosmos, challenging classical understanding that...
