"As fascinating as the galaxy appears at visible wavelengths, some of NGC 5643's most interesting features are invisible to ...

From rare cosmic phenomena like Einstein Rings to dazzling starburst regions in spiral galaxies, each image offers a glimpse ...

NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the glorious spiral galaxy NGC 5643, which is located roughly 40 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus, the Wolf. NGC 5643 is a grand ...

The Big Bang should be thought of as a "point" in time but not happening at a particular place. Astronomers will often say ...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows two of the galaxies in the galactic triplet Arp 248 also known as Wild's Triplet, are visible in the constellation Virgo.

Light is a time machine: all we see, from stars to galaxies, shows the past. Expanding space stretches light, letting ...

When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true. But according to an idea doing the rounds on social ...

These instruments, like the Hubble Space Telescope, reported a value of around 73 km/s/Mpc. The difference between these ...

“Thanks to Hubble’s observing power, we’re opening a new gateway into understanding quasars,” Ren said. “My colleagues are excited because they’ve never seen this much detail before.” Quasar 3C 273 is ...