The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635), located 8,000 light-years away, is showcased in a stunning Hubble image released for its 26th anniversary. This infrared image unveils the nebula's inner regions, cutting ...

There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...

This image was created by combining data from three major observatories: NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Astronomers trace the striking pattern to an encounter between a big galaxy and a much smaller one some 50 million years ago.

Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope ...

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

The discovery was made by Imad Pasha, a doctoral student at Yale University, who stumbled upon the unique galaxy while examining a ground-based imaging survey. "This ...

A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.

What if you could find binoculars big enough to qualify as small telescopes? Get ready for the BT–127XL–SD apochromatic ...

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

Hubble Telescope previously discovered eight rings of the gargantuan structure, but astronomers confirmed the ninth ring with ...