The universe is a strange place. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) orbiting observatory recently highlighted ...

As a joke, she labelled it LGM 1 for “Little Green Men”, but the astronomers working on it did not really believe they had discovered aliens. They were, however, concerned about the possibility that ...

An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just flew by the sun. Next, the object will fly by Earth in ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be the first telescope specifically engineered to identify habitable, Earth-like ...

Our scientists are investigating how a UK-led team could design and build a core instrument for a flagship NASA mission to search for life on distant ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever recorded, is currently passing through our solar system. Discovered on ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope was originally expected to last about 15 years in orbit, before its optical surfaces became too ...

Hubble’s updated view of NGC 3370, richer in light and detail than ever before, deepens our understanding of both the galaxy and the cosmos itself. This new Hubble Picture of the Week highlights a ...

Due to its stellar activity, the galaxy has become a favorite for astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope. Orbiting ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy UGC 2890. The "galaxy lies around 30 million light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis," according to the Hubble team.

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, chaotic bundles of turbulent gas, churned up by huge gulps of intergalactic gas, ...