This stunning image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a dramatic interplay of light and shadow in the Egg Nebula, sculpted by freshly ejected stardust. Located approximately 1,000 light-years ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest that even extremely massive gas giants — once thought too large to form like ordinary planets — may grow ...

Here are six of NASA Hubble Space Telescope’s most iconic deep-space images, showcasing spiral galaxies, barred galaxies and ...

What looks like a galactic dance is really a cosmic optical illusion—two galaxies, worlds apart, perfectly aligned by chance.

Two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. Tiny magnetic fields ...

Hubble captures a dazzling stellar nursery where newborn stars light up and carve their way through glowing clouds in a ...

Andromeda is also a flattened spiral like the Milky Way, but it's twice as large — 220,000 light-years across versus 105,000 for the Milky Way — and crammed with a trillion suns. Can you even begin to ...

This image shows the Circinus galaxy, a spiral galaxy about 13 million light-years away. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/NSF’s NOIRLab NASA’s James Webb Space ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Alzheimer's Scientists Reveal New Early Warning Sign ...

Universe Today reports on new research that examines a long-standing question in astronomy: why blue straggler stars appear younger than other stars in the same clusters. Blue stragglers are hotter ...

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant universe. Pictured here is the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223, or MACS J1149 for short, which is ...