For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

Lee Feinberg, HWO's principal architect based at Goddard, said in a separate presentation that NASA is currently envisioning ...

The Hubble Telescope has spotted an unusual spiral galaxy – 76 million light-years away – that resembles an eye ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

The stars aligned for the planetarium's dome to become the backdrop for four readings of 'REDshift,' by playwright Chalmers ...

How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark ...

Following up on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in a number of quasars, aspiring naval officer Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy has used NASA's Hubble Space ...

Cosmic Leviathan: A galaxy cluster, resembling a submerged sea monster, distorts spacetime around it, as captured by the ...

Edwin Hubble was the first astronomer to take the initial steps that would ultimately lead to the Hubble Space Telescope, revealing a seemingly infinite ocean of galaxies. He thought that, despite ...