About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
An ultra-deep image from the National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a wide variety of galaxies in the ...
Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...
Astronomers have traced a mysterious fast radio burst to an unexpected place — an ancient, massive galaxy far removed from ...
The U.S. Postal Service has issued a new set of stamps celebrating the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space ...
Instead of finding the radio burst in a region of young stars, researchers traced its origin to the outskirts of a “dead” ...
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...
Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to produce these types of signals.
After a close look with a powerful radio telescope, astronomers are still puzzled by a pair of objects with strange ...