Mar 12, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1015, also known as LEDA 9988, UGC 2124 and SDSS J023811.55-011907.5. In...

Mar 9, 2018 by News Staff

Using data from the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and NASA’s twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) satellites, solar...

Mar 8, 2018 by News Staff

A remarkable new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows Arp 256, a stunning system of two barred spiral galaxies in an early stage of merging. This...

Mar 7, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a massive dust structure — about 150 billion miles across — around HR 4796A,...

Mar 5, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3972, which is found in the constellation of Ursa Major. This image,...

Mar 2, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a Saturn-mass exoplanet known as WASP-39b. By combining...

Feb 26, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the dwarf galaxy IC 4710. This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...

Feb 19, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of a large, dark storm on Neptune shrinking out of existence. This series of Hubble images taken...

Feb 15, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of NGC 3344, a face-on spiral galaxy. Hubble’s capacity to observe objects in...

Feb 12, 2018 by News Staff

NASA has released an absolutely beautiful photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of PLCK G004.5-19.5, a massive cluster of galaxies in the...

Feb 8, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have produced this vivid image of a distant pair of interacting...

Feb 6, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have conducted the first spectroscopic survey of exoplanets within the habitable zone around TRAPPIST-1....

Feb 5, 2018 by News Staff

This view, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a somewhat overlooked barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 1559. This image from the NASA/ESA...

Jan 29, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 7331, which is found in the constellation of Pegasus. This Hubble/WFC3...

Jan 22, 2018 by News Staff

In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of an ancient globular cluster named NGC 3201. This Hubble image shows the...

Jan 21, 2018 by News Staff

NASA has released the sharpest image ever taken of the Cartwheel Galaxy, a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. This image from the NASA/ESA...

Jan 18, 2018 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image so far of A1758N, a sub-cluster of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 1758. This Hubble...

Jan 17, 2018 by News Staff

Thanks to the presence of a cosmic zoom lens, Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes got a uniquely close-up look at one of the farthest galaxies ever seen. Salmon...

Jan 15, 2018 by News Staff

By combining the visible and infrared capabilities of NASA’s Spitzer and NASA/ESA Hubble space telescopes, a team of specialists at NASA’s Universe...

Jan 12, 2018 by News Staff

Many disc galaxies, including our own Milky Way Galaxy, have a central concentration of stars called a ‘bulge.’ For decades, astronomers had a simple...