In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine brightly across cosmic time and space. Yet a rare class of galaxies ...

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening.

NGC 6355 has been imaged using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The globular cluster of stars lies 50,000 light-years away. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola, R. Cohen Music: Stellardrone - Billions ...

It's the final act for a star in the constellation Cygnus, some 1,000 light-years away. But this star is not dying without ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures imagery of globular cluster NGC 6325. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola, R. Cohen | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

This phase only lasts a few hundred years.

The Egg Nebula, located around 1,000 light years away, is home to a dying star entering last phase of its life.

NASA said Tuesday the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a dramatic interplay of light and shadow in what’s called the Egg Nebula.

The universe is so vast, and the difficulty of discovering all that there is out in the cosmos is so great, that one might as well count all the grains of sand in the Sahara. But now, with the help of ...

Deep in the digital bedrock of 35 years of Hubble observation archives, a new AI tool has uncovered more than 800 previously undocumented cosmic anomalies in a scant two and a half days. Using a ...

The universe is filled with innumerable astrophysical objects, each one different from the last. But even amid this vast diversity, some stand out as truly bizarre. A pair of astronomers recently ...

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