Apr 5, 2022 by News Staff

Using the Subaru Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have found evidence for a Jupiter-like protoplanet around the young star...

Apr 4, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a detailed image of a spectacular part of the spiral galaxy called NGC 5921. This image shows NGC 5921, a...

Mar 31, 2022 by News Staff

Utopia Planitia, a large lava plain in the northern hemisphere of Mars, has a diameter of roughly 3,300 km (2,051 miles) — just under twice the north-south...

Mar 31, 2022 by News Staff

Designated WHL0137-LS and nicknamed Earendel, the newly-detected star emitted its light around 900 million years after the Big Bang. Earendel (arrow) is...

Mar 28, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of the spiral galaxy NGC 7172. This Hubble image shows NGC 7172, an active...

Mar 23, 2022 by News Staff

The formation of our Milky Way Galaxy can be split up qualitatively into different assembly phases that resulted in its structurally different stellar...

Mar 21, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the low-surface brightness spiral galaxy NGC 4571. This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy...

Mar 16, 2022 by News Staff

Following the completion of mirror alignment steps, the Webb team expects that the telescope’s optical performance will be able to meet or exceed its...

Mar 14, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a finely detailed image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097. This Hubble image shows NGC 1097, a barred...

Mar 7, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released an a beautiful new photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of an Herbig-Haro object called HH 34. This Hubble image shows...

Mar 2, 2022 by News Staff

Scientists and engineers on the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope team have successfully worked through the second and third out of seven total phases...

Feb 28, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacularly detailed image of a pair of overlapping galaxies called NGC 4496. This...

Feb 23, 2022 by News Staff

Using data collected by the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) infrared spectrograph onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have obtained a detailed...

Feb 23, 2022 by News Staff

A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures an ongoing head-on collision between the star-forming spiral galaxy NGC 2445 an the less...

Feb 21, 2022 by News Staff

Astronomers using the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter and the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft have captured the largest solar prominence...

Feb 21, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new photo of Arp 298, a pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation...

Feb 17, 2022 by News Staff

Using data from ESA’s Gaia spacecraft, astronomers have looked for the remains of ancient dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way’s halo, which surrounds the...

Feb 14, 2022 by News Staff

Each dot visible in this image mosaic from the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is the same...

Feb 14, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Hubble team has released an incredibly beautiful shot of IC 2431, a distant trio of merging galaxies located in the constellation of Cancer. This composite...

Feb 8, 2022 by News Staff

On February 3, 2022, astronomers saw the first photons of starlight that traveled through the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and were detected...