Scientists observed M87’s first gamma-ray flare in a decade, revealing insights into its supermassive black hole and ...
On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Simon Marius. The Andromeda galaxy is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, and ...
Jim Bridenstine, who served as NASA administrator during Trump’s first term, stated, “Jared’s vision for pushing boundaries, ...
The photograph that immortalized McCandless’s historic spacewalk is nothing short of awe-inspiring. It depicts a lone figure, ...
Weeks after NASA's 1999 Hubble repair, the Hubble Heritage Project captured this image of NGC 1999, a nebula in Orion, using the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. This Hubble image shows RS Puppis, a ...
Astronomers analyzing archival images from JWST have discovered an unexpectedly vast population of the smallest asteroids ever seen in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Composite images reveal how the sun's corona changed from one total solar eclipse to another in 2023 and 2024, just as solar ...
Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302): Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across ...
NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet ...
The winter stars are like that. They're bright, sparkly and arrive "from a distance" low on the eastern horizon and gradually ...