Hubble telescope

Rice University astronomers reviewed the first images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and saw telltale signs from two dozen previously unseen young stars approximately 7,500 light years from Earth. The published research provides…

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope captured views of a unique NASA experiment designed to intentionally smash a spacecraft into a small asteroid in the world's first-ever in-space test for planetary defense.…

The red supergiant Betelgeuse is as troublesome as Michael Keaton's rambunctious spirit in the 1988 hit: Beetlejuice. In 2019, Betelgeuse ejected a substantial amount of its surface into space in a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) 400 billion…

For the first time, astronomers have captured images of a periodic rocky near-Sun comet breaking apart, a common fate for heavenly bodies with destabilized orbits. Because they pass so close to the Sun, they are challenging to study, and…

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovered a companion star previously hidden in the glare of its partner's supernova. The discovery marks the first time astronomers have found a supernova without evidence of the star's atmosphere in its…

Reminiscent of fireflies flickering in the dark, lighting up the screen in chunks and clusters. A simulation of the early universe when the cosmos moved from darkness to a radiant, light-filled environment. The amazing video is part of the…

Just over 2,537 light-years away shines the Andromeda Galaxy. It is the closest large galaxy to us and has a bright bar structure at its center, making it a "barred spiral galaxy." Astronomers have found an intermediate-mass black hole…