Hubble Spies an Active Spiral
A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with…
NASA Webb, Hubble Share Most Comprehensive View of Saturn to Date
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have teamed up to capture new views of Saturn,…
Telescopes Team Up for New View of Cat’s Eye Nebula
This March 3, 2026, image combines views from ESA’s (European Space Agency) Euclid and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope…
College Student Solves Mystery of ‘Snowmen’ Floating in Space
NEED TO KNOW Graduate student Jackson Barnes appears to have solved how snowman-like objects in space are formed…
New ‘Dark Galaxy’ Identified as NASA Says It’s Nearly Invisible and Made Up of 99% Dark Matter
NEED TO KNOW A new galaxy, named Candidate Dark Galaxy-2 or CDG-2, was recently discovered using the Hubble…
Young ‘Sun’ Caught Blowing Bubbles by NASA’s Chandra
For the first time, a much younger version of the Sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in…
Nearly invisible galaxy may be built mostly of dark matter, Hubble finds
A tight clump of four star clusters sits in the Perseus galaxy cluster, and at first glance it…
We asked retired astronauts about their favorite space movies, and this is what they shared with us
NASA’s Artemis II mission is set to launch as early as February 8, putting human spaceflight to the…
AI Sifts Through a Mountain of Hubble Data, Uncovers Hundreds of Cosmic Weirdos
The universe is filled with innumerable astrophysical objects, each one different from the last. But even amid this…
AI Unlocks Hundreds of Cosmic Anomalies in Hubble Archive
A team of astronomers has employed a cutting-edge, artificial intelligence-assisted technique to uncover rare astronomical phenomena within archived…
Hubble Snaps Stellar Baby Pictures
Newly developing stars shrouded in thick dust get their first baby pictures in these images from NASA’s Hubble…
Could China’s Yaogan-47 satellite have a lens as wide as the Hubble Telescope?
One of China’s latest Earth observation satellites operating in low orbit could feature an optical aperture at a…