NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope captures an image of the active galactic center in spiral galaxy UGC 11397, located in the ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the stunning Sombrero Galaxy (M104), known for its bright central bulge and thick dust lanes forming its spiral structure. Viewed nearly edge-on from Earth ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is making waves again, this time for a snapshot of a spiral galaxy located 250 million light-years ...

The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...

More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...

In 1929, an astronomer named Edwin Hubble stood atop Mount Wilson in California, peering into the night sky. What he s ...

Looking for fun activities this week? You can try "The Wizard of Oz" at ASF, as well as several music and theater shows at ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, witnessed a star meeting a dramatic end by exploding twice. In a study published in Nature Astronomy, researchers analyzed the centuries-old remains of supernova ...

Chile's ALMA observatory, which houses some of the world's most powerful telescopes, has captured its most detailed images to ...