Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have found evidence for what is likely the most massive black holes ever detected.
A massive black...
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...
Astronomers using data from NASA’s extended Kepler mission, known as K2, have discovered 95 new exoplanets, with sizes ranging from mostly rocky super-Earths...
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...
With its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), New Horizons has observed several objects in the Kuiper Belt, a distant region of icy debris that extends...
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...
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...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have conducted the first spectroscopic survey of exoplanets within the habitable zone around TRAPPIST-1....
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...
A new panoramic image from Curiosity provides a sweeping vista of the interior and rim of Gale Crater, including much of the rover’s route during its...
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...
Astronomers using data from the NASA Kepler spacecraft’s reborn K2 mission have found a triple system of super-Earth exoplanets around a cool star called...
Martian dust storms play a role in the ongoing process of gas escaping from the top of the planet’s atmosphere, according to a new study using observations...
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...
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...
Using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, a team of planetary researchers led by Cornell University has produced a new global topographic map of Titan,...
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...
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...
An international team of citizen scientists and professional astronomers has discovered a system of at least five massive exoplanets, orbiting the Sun-like...
