A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
The Hubble Telescope has spotted an unusual spiral galaxy – 76 million light-years away – that resembles an eye ...
For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...
"We have by and large been ignoring triples in models and simulations — we're just starting to understand how these types of ...
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?
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 ...
Hubble captured an exploding star about 650 million light-years from Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation ...
NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark ...
Cosmic Leviathan: A galaxy cluster, resembling a submerged sea monster, distorts spacetime around it, as captured by the ...