Mar 24, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released a beautiful new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the ‘flocculent’ spiral galaxy NGC 5530. This Hubble image...

Mar 17, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured coronagraphic images of the HR 8799...

Mar 17, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a small region of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the closest galaxies to the Milky...

Mar 11, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have explored the lowest mass limit of brown dwarfs within the Flame Nebula, a hotbed of...

Mar 10, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacular image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4900. This Hubble image shows NGC 4900,...

Mar 7, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Two young protostars are responsible for the shimmering ejections of gas and dust that gleam in orange, blue, and purple in this color image of a portion...

Mar 5, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers may finally have settled the question of what is causing highly energetic X-rays from WD 2226-210, a white dwarf star located at the center...

Mar 4, 2025 by News Staff

Altjira, also known as 2001 UQ18, is located in the outer reaches of the Solar System, 6 billion km (3.7 billion miles) away, or 44 times the distance...

Mar 3, 2025 by News Staff

New observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope support the presence of three specific features — clouds, hot spots, and changing...

Mar 3, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a beautiful new image of the intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 5042. This Hubble image...

Feb 26, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will fly by the small asteroid Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. By blinking between images captured by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft...

Feb 24, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an outstanding image of a small fraction of the Veil Nebula, which is part of a supernova remnant called...

Feb 19, 2025 by News Staff

The accretion disk orbiting Sagittarius A* is emitting a constant stream of flares with no periods of rest, according to an analysis of new data from the...

Feb 17, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced an outstanding image of the spiral galaxy UGC 5460. This Hubble image shows UGC 5460,...

Feb 13, 2025 by News Staff

New images, taken over 16 min on January 17, 2025 by the Mastcam instrument on NASA’s Curiosity rover, show noctilucent, or twilight clouds, in the atmosphere...

Feb 12, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Tarantula Nebula is the most important star-forming complex in the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, the Large Magellanic Cloud,...

Feb 6, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured...

Feb 4, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) at W.M. Keck Observatory, astronomers have identified nine...

Feb 4, 2025 by News Staff

In a new study, planetary researchers used global and high-resolution orbital imaging to discover a fresh, 21.5-m (71-foot) impact crater that appeared...

Feb 3, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A type Ia supernova event called SN 2022abvt was discovered two years ago in the spiral galaxy LEDA 132905. This Hubble image LEDA 132905, a spiral galaxy...