For the past decade, scientists have been trying to get to the bottom of what seemed like a major inconsistency in the ...

In 1987, an enormous blue arc, thought to be hundreds of trillions of miles long, was first considered one of the largest objects ever detected in space. The arc was discovered near the galaxy cluster ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have captured amazing views of spiral galaxy NGC 2566. Credit: Space.com | ESA, NASA & CSA / Hubble /Webb, A. Leroy, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), D ...

A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a kaleidoscopic scene in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), ...

Astronomers have observed a tidal disruption event, AT2024tvd, caused by a rogue supermassive black hole devouring a star far from its galaxy's center. This marks the first time a TDE has been ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away. Remarkably, the spiral galaxy has only one visible arm.

Hubble’s latest image of spiral galaxy NGC 3596 reveals a celestial swirl rich with starbirth—and a long-standing mystery about how spiral arms really work. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker A ...

The long-awaited phone is set to be unveiled during a virtual Unpacked event. Here's everything to know and how to tune in. Abrar Al-Heeti Senior Technology Reporter Abrar Al-Heeti is a senior ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures an image of a supermassive black hole that is not at the center of its galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / Yuhan Yao / Joseph DePasquale Using NASA's Hubble ...

Listen to Story Astronomers used a suite of observatories to observe it Hubble’s sharp vision pinpointed the tidal disruption event Theorists believe such wandering black holes may be remnants of past ...

Follow-up observations by the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that this black hole lies 2,600 light-years from the galaxy's core, where a much larger black hole resides — a behemoth 100 million ...

The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy. In modern times, though, we use “galaxy” more generically to ...