The teams behind two potential new space telescopes have embarked on their final design studies as they go head-to-head to ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...

Determining the expansion rate of the universe, the "Hubble constant," shapes our understanding of the cosmos, its age, and its fate.

A glowing nebula located approximately 2,700 light-years from Earth resembles a guitar with a bright pulsar at the tip of the ...

Webb's ability to see through hazy obstacles is demonstrated here with the Sombrero, aka Messier 104, a nearly edge-on spiral ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

In its galactic neighborhood, the Milky Way can be something of a bully.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 4694, a galaxy that possesses unusual properties that complicate its ...

Hubble's new image of UGC 10043 shows a rare side view of this spiral galaxy, revealing a prominent bulge and curved edges.

This Hubble image showcases spiral galaxy IC 4709 located 240 million light-years away from Earth. It also contains a black ...

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows GAL-CLUS-022058s, a rare galaxy in the Fornax constellation, curving around its spherical companion. This Hubble image captures HH111, a rare ...

Brian Greene (Cosmic String Theory) and Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel have collaborated on a National Geographic coffee-table ...