IC 486, a barred spiral galaxy, lies at the edge of the constellation Gemini an inconceivable 380 million light-years from ...

To celebrate its 36th anniversary, scientists turned the observatory back toward a target it first imaged in 1997: the Trifid ...

Humanity officially expanded its vision to the edge of time today. In a historic maneuver 380 miles above the Earth’s surface ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...

Hubble images never fail to amaze.

A new Hubble Space Telescope image of barred spiral galaxy IC 486 reveals how its sweeping arms and central bar shape star formation and galactic growth. Located 380 million light-years away, IC 486 ...

April 2026 marks 36th birth anniversary of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Launched in 1990, this telescope is a milestone for ...

The constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear) is home to Messier 101, the Pinwheel Galaxy. Messier 101 is one of the biggest and brightest spiral galaxies in the night sky. Like the Milky Way, ...

Astronomers have spotted a galaxy so faint, it’s almost invisible — a discovery that could help illuminate one of the most elusive substances in the universe. The researchers found Candidate Dark ...

Deep in the digital bedrock of 35 years of Hubble observation archives, a new AI tool has uncovered more than 800 previously undocumented cosmic anomalies in a scant two and a half days. Using a ...