NASA's Hubble Telescope captured the rare phenomenon of a comet breaking apart, catching scientists off guard until they saw ...

Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have a flat disk, winding spiral arms and ongoing star formation. Ellipticals ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.

The discovery of CDG-2 began when a team of astronomers investigated tight groupings of stars called globular clusters, which ...

Behind the dusty clouds of the Cigar Galaxy lies a dazzling powerhouse of star formation, where stars are being born ten times faster than in the Milky Way. Astronomers using the Hubble Space ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been orbiting Earth for over 35 years now. Billions of miles away, floating above our heads, it has completely changed .

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 ...

Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope announced Wednesday that they had peered through time to photograph seven galaxies that formed early in the evolution of the universe and could help ...

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 ...