A galaxy's outstretched arms form a nearly perfect circle around its central disk in a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The barred spiral galaxy, formally known as MCG+07-07-072 ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope helped astronomers find more supermassive black holes in the early universe than previous estimates.

M33 is known to be a hotbed of star birth, forming stars at a rate 10 times higher than the average of its neighbor Andromeda ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo named NGC 5668.

The Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor, glows brightly in a new Hubble Space Telescope image with swathes of ionized gas that fuel star formation. The rosy red structures ...

Ditsö`, also known as WASP-17 b, orbits a star 1,300 light-years from Earth. One side of the planet is perpetually locked so ...

It's been 15 years since the last time NASA's groundbreaking Hubble Space Telescope was serviced by astronauts. And the aging observatory, which has been circling our planet in a low Earth orbit ...

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The Triangulum Galaxy, the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, is shining with star formation in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Located nearly 3 million light years ...

NASA's groundbreaking Hubble Space Telescope is on its last legs. Ongoing issues with the aging spacecraft's remaining gyroscopes, which help point in the right direction, have forced scientists ...

James Webb was launched in December to succeed the revolutionary - but now ageing - Hubble Space Telescope ... Webb has an open design; its mirrors are not guarded by the kind of tubular baffle ...

NASA has released a new image taken by its Hubble Space Telescope, which reveals characteristics of what is known as a dwarf galaxy, located nearly 3 million light years away. The Tucana Dwarf ...