Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a new image of a peculiar galaxy pair called Arp 116.
Hubble snapped this image of the...
The Hubble team has released a new image of NGC 5806, a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo.
The image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5806...
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has discovered the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system.
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging.
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A large international team of over 80 astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the South Pole Telescope, and eight other world-class observatories,...
An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to make the first detection of X-rays from the remains of a supernova...
Astronomers have detected the first exoplanetary system with regularly aligned orbits similar to those in our Solar System.
In this artist interpretation,...
Astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of Earth.
This artist’s concept shows...
For the first time ever, astronomers from NASA and the University of Tübingen in Germany have detected rare noble gases krypton and xenon in the spectrum...
Astronomers using NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected a fifth and tiniest moon yet orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto.
This image, taken by...
An international team of astrophysicists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected meteorological variations in the atmosphere of the exoplanet...
An international group of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has studied some of the smallest and faintest galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood.
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