In a spectacular image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 glows with cosmic elegance and hides a strange survivor.

The Tarantula Nebula glows with powerful stars and chaotic dust, captured in vivid detail by the Hubble Space Telescope. It’s a star factory outside our galaxy—raging with stellar winds and cosmic ...

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which operates Webb, recently released an image of a planetary nebula known as NGC 6072. The nebula is located roughly 3,300 light-years from Earth, in ...

Chandra has been watching the skies since its 1999 launch. It detects X-rays, a type of light invisible to our eyes. These ...

An animation of the moment NASA spotted a black hole ripping a star apart and the subsequent explosion helps shed light on ...

NASA had just unveiled a time-lapse of space. To create the video, the agency used one of the most powerful telescopes in ...

NASA has unveiled a spectacular series of nine cosmic images captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, released on July 23, ...

Looking up at the night sky, it may seem our cosmic neighborhood is packed full of planets, stars and galaxies. But ...

Long before stars lit up the sky, the universe was a hot, dense place where simple chemistry quietly set the stage for ...