The Hubble Space Telescope has the knack for finding every size and shape of galaxy imaginable – from small, medium…
Planetary nebulae are astronomy's gateway drug. Their eye-catching forms make us wonder what process created them, and what else is…
Meet NGC 2608, a barred spiral galaxy about 93 million light years away, in the constellation Cancer. Also called Arp…
The Hubble Space Telescope has delivered another outstanding image. This one is of NGC 6441, a massive globular cluster in…
Astronomers don’t know exactly when the first stars formed in the Universe because they haven’t been observed yet. And now,…
NGC 3895 is a barred spiral galaxy in the Ursa Major constellation. It's about 145 million light years away from…
In these days of social distancing, it appears this beautiful little galaxy is leading by example, sitting all by itself…
In honor of NASA's first Chief Astronomer and the "mother of Hubble," the WFIRST has been officially named the Nancy…
It's difficult to imagine the magnitude of storms on Jupiter. The gas giant's most visible atmospheric feature, the Great Red…
Ongoing observations of the Fomalhaut system using Hubble data has revealed that the mysterious "disappearing" exoplanet may not have been…