"The protostars are midway down the path to becoming mature stars." Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

When Pagan and DePasquale first receive the images, they appear in black and white. The colors are added to the image later, ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark ...

The picture, snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals Jupiter shining in ultraviolet light. In the image, Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot, which appears red in visible light, is a instead a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is much larger than the Hubble and instead of orbiting the Earth, operates from a stationary ...

But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star ... Jan. 13, 2025 — Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Proposed budget reductions for the Hubble Space Telescope would impact research and outreach as well as increase the risk to the observatory, project officials warn.

Edwin Hubble was the first astronomer to take the initial steps that would ultimately lead to the Hubble Space Telescope, revealing a seemingly infinite ocean of galaxies. He thought that, despite ...