Aug 18, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released a new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 2835. This Hubble image shows NGC 2835, a...

Aug 11, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a stunning new image of part of a spiral galaxy called NGC 45. This Hubble image shows...

Aug 7, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers have identified and measured the most massive black hole to date, which tops out at a mass of 36 billion solar masses. This ultramassive black...

Aug 5, 2025 by News Staff

Intracluster light is a diffuse glow of stars stripped from galaxies during a galaxy cluster’s formation. Abell 3667 is featured in this DECam image....

Aug 1, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have observed the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), an area of deep space with nearly 10,000...

Jul 28, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Hubble team has released a stunning new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the face-on spiral galaxy NGC 1309. This Hubble shows...

Jul 21, 2025 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an outstanding image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3285B. This Hubble image shows NGC 3285B, a barred...

Jul 11, 2025 by News Staff

3I/ATLAS — the second interstellar comet ever spotted in our cosmic neighborhood — may predate our Solar System by more than 3 billion years,...

Jul 7, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Abell 209 is a massive galaxy cluster located about 2.8 billion light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. This Hubble image shows Abell 209, a galaxy...

Jul 3, 2025 by News Staff

As part of the CRISTAL (CII Resolved ISM in STar-forming galaxies with ALMA) survey, astronomers peered back to when the Universe was only about one billion...

Jul 1, 2025 by News Staff

Using the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a stunning infrared image of central...

Jun 27, 2025 by News Staff

Present-day disk galaxies often exhibit distinct thin and thick disks. The formation mechanisms of the two disks and the timing of their onset remain open...

Jun 27, 2025 by News Staff

Using data from several space- and ground-based telescopes, NASA astronomers have captured a stunning new image of the Andromeda galaxy, which is the closest...

Jun 23, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shot this image of UGC 11397, a barred spiral galaxy that is hosting an actively growing supermassive black hole. This...

Jun 18, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have observed the active starburst (star-forming)...

Jun 17, 2025 by News Staff

In a new paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers from the University of Leicester describe for the first...

Jun 16, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers have used Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) to show that more than three-quarters of the Universe’s ordinary matter has been hiding in the thin gas...

Jun 16, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced an outstanding new image of the dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 4449. This Hubble image...

Jun 11, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers have discovered the largest known cloud of energetic particles surrounding a galaxy cluster — the 20-million-light-year-wide cloud around...

Jun 10, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Using the NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a new image of the Sombrero...