A celestial light show illuminates a distant spiral galaxy, where a hidden supernova briefly outshines its stellar neighbors ...

The Hubble Telescope viewed a distant galaxy whose light appears to contradict some of the most common rules of quantum physics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The Andromeda galaxy is the galaxy next door, a very faint, fuzzy thing in the night sky, larger than a full moon. Textbooks claim it’s visible to the naked eye. Most of us have never noticed it. Too ...

Arp 184 or NGC 1961, a skewed or "peculiar" spiral galaxy, is still stunning in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. One of the 338 formations cataloged by astronomer Halton Arp in 1966 in his ...

Hubble’s latest image of NGC 2835 reveals dazzling pink nebulae glowing in H-alpha light, exposing both newborn stars and remnants of dying ones. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar, J. Lee and the ...

Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combine to reveal an otherworldly view of ...

NASA released an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope showing a galaxy under pressure. The image released by the space agency last week shows a galaxy located 52 million light years away, LEDA ...

Hidden within veils of gas and dust lies the brilliant heart of Messier 82 (M82), better known as the Cigar Galaxy. This galaxy has earned its reputation as one of the most energetic star-forming ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy whose asymmetric appearance may be the result of a galactic tug of war. Located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, the ...