"Stars could be there, we just can't see them." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have accidentally discovered a dark ...

When the Hubble Space Telescope snapped a photo of the Sombrero Galaxy 20 years ago, it resembled a hat, with a brim and glowing crown. But astronomers may have to rename it the visor galaxy. In a new ...

NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy, an "enticing empire of stars" that can be seen with the naked eye if weather conditions are just right. About 100 years after astronomer Edwin ...

The cosmos is full of secrets waiting to be uncovered, and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to reveal them in breathtaking detail. In a monumental achievement, astronomers have used ...

This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope is notable for the way it was composed as much as for the object it shows. Composed of two different exposures which have been merged, it shows the ...

The cutting-edge observatory is charged with seeing some of the earliest visible light, and the recent image achieves a new milestone in stellar astronomy. Reading time 2 minutes The Webb Space ...

About 12 million light years away lies an impossible galaxy. Over the last 600 million years, its core has been forming new stars – but there is no apparent source for the fuel that has fed that star ...

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A team of researchers has confirmed stars ring loud and clear in a "key" that will harmonize well with the science goals and capabilities of NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Stars' ...

Researchers found seven stars in our galaxy that might host alien megastructures called Dyson spheres. But these stars' strange behavior could also be explained by other phenomena, like clouds of dust ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its history. The Hubble survey, assembled from over 1,000 orbits and spanning a ...