New Hubble observations explain how blue straggler stars form, showing that binary systems in low-density clusters play a key role ...

A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of ...

"This is a tale of a failed galaxy." ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.

The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is a key spot for astronomers to study star formation.

A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust sculpted by intense stellar radiation. The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is located about 6,500 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope's newest images of 3I/ATLAS confirm the presence of its sunward anti-tail, contrary to the usual ...

NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope have recently released a breathtaking new image of NGC 2835, a spiral galaxy located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. This latest photo, ...

Thirty-five years after its launch into space, the Hubble Space Telescope is still wowing us with its views of the universe, and the cosmic mysteries it is helping unlock. On April 24, 1990, the Space ...

Astronomers have used a new method to confirm a discrepancy between the expansion rate of the early and nearby universe. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. The Hubble Space Telescope revisited the nearly edge-on Sombrero Galaxy ...