ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
NGC 922 is a peculiar galaxy in the southern constellation of Fornax. This beautiful image was captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 7049 is a lenticular galaxy that spans about 150,000 light ...
The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new set of stamps celebrating the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space ...
An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the ...
The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and ...
NGC 2090 - A Flaky Disc: NGC 2090 is a spiral galaxy which is located in the constellation Columba. This galaxy played a ...
Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...
The U.S. Postal Service has issued two new stamps featuring iconic images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The stamps, ...
A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.
This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.
A new computational method gleans more information than its predecessors from maps showing how galaxies are clustered and threaded throughout the universe.
Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...