Footage from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope that celebrates 35 years in space. Images of Mars, planetary nebula NGC 2899, Rosette Nebula and galaxy NGC 5335 to celebrate. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space ...
The space telescope is peering into our own solar system's future. Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto-like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque snack.
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A feathery ring of dust and stars known as galaxy NGC2775 continues to irk astronomers and has yet to be defined after NASA released updated imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy about ...
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years away in the constellation Delphinus," according to NASA. Credit: Space.com ...
Floating high above Earth's atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured some of the most breathtaking images ever seen — galaxies colliding, stars being born, and nebulae glowing in cosmic ...
A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...
Nature can get brutal. On a cosmic scale, things get even more destructive—leaving behind carnage made of stellar dust the size of an entire planet. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...
Some NASA missions are designed for very specific tasks, but all of them help feed into our understanding of our universe, and in some cases our pale blue dot, work. A new mission to study one of the ...
Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system. In 1995, a gas giant named 51 Pegasi b, which orbits a star similar to Earth's sun, etched its name in history as the first exoplanet ever ...
It may become visible to the naked eye, but if not, it will still be easy to spot with a decent backyard telescope or a pair of stargazing binoculars. "This comet is developing very nicely and it is ...