The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the farthest-discovered active inbound comet, C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS). The comet’s orbit indicates...
NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the small galaxy LEDA 31961.
LEDA 31961. Image credit: NASA / ESA...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have spotted an unusual object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: two asteroids orbiting...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the well-studied hot Jupiter WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a remarkable new picture of NGC 5398.
This image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the...
X-rays emitted by a Sun-like star may provide valuable information about whether its planetary system will be hospitable to life, a new study suggests....
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 5559.
This Hubble image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC...
In a research paper to appear in the Astronomical Journal (arXiv.org preprint), astronomers from MIT, the Geneva Observatory and elsewhere report that...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a remarkable new image of a pair of interacting galaxies known as NGC 5765.
The two galaxies shown here,...
This image of the small galaxy NGC 178 comes courtesy of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2).
This new image...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the dwarf spiral galaxy IC 1727.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the galaxy NGC 5949, which is found in the constellation of Draco.
This image from Hubble’s...
An international research team led by University of Exeter astronomer Dr. Tom Evans has revealed a stratosphere containing water and possibly oxides of...
Using data from the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), solar physicists have found evidence of a type of seismic wave (gravity waves,...
At a distance of 420 million light-years, the recently-discovered SN 2017egm is the nearest Type I superluminous supernova to date, and the first near...
An international team of scientists has used data from ESA’s Planck Space Observatory and other telescopes to map the distribution of all light energy...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has delivered an unrivalled snapshot of the hockey stick-shaped galaxy NGC 4656.
This image from Hubble shows the spiral...
A team of researchers led by JAXA’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science has discovered unexpected patterns of slow motion and stationary waves...
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features two stunning galaxies — the compact elliptical galaxy NGC 1510 and its colossal neighbor,...
