Imagery of Saturn captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is superimposed over an image captured by Hubble. "Yellows represent bright and warm parts of Saturn’s atmosphere, while the purple areas ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say.

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Although this spiral galaxy appears unremarkable from afar, NGC 7456 is bursting with newborn stars and glowing gas, ...

M82 has been a popular target for astronomers and their telescopes, due to its high activity. Hubble has observed it many ...

Hubble Space Telescope can "only see the universe in shades of grey," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Learn how the imagery is processed into amazing color views of the cosmos. Credit ...

NGC 2775, a galaxy 67 million light-years away, is puzzling astronomers with its mix of traits. The Hubble Space Telescope has released a new Picture of the Week, and this time the spotlight is on a ...

Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto -like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals new details in Messier 82 (M82), home to brilliant stars whose light is ...

Astronomers are trying to determine what caused a series of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, ...

This ghostly galaxy was first observed in 1780 by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain, who worked with renowned comet hunter ...