Astronomers have discovered what may be the largest-scale structure in the known universe — a group of galaxy clusters and clusters of galaxy clusters that spans roughly 1.3 billion light-years ...

This beautiful and shining galaxy is believed to be the largest known spiral galaxy that humanity has ever uncovered. The NGC 6872 is ranked among the largest known spiral galaxies for a reason ...

This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes ... of supernova 1987A on the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Most nebula photographs you see use combinations of these narrow filters, so how these images look is very different from any unaided first-person view you’d get if you were physically floating ...

A Menlo Park, California, lab built this camera to learn about dark energy and dark matter, flag hazardous asteroids, and ...

This composite picture of the Helix Nebula was assembled by astronomers by blenindg ultra-sharp NASA Hubble Space Telescope images combined with the wide view of the Mosaic Camera on the National ...

Space photos remind us that, around every corner of our vast universe, something spectacular awaits. From the newest James Webb Space Telescope images to historic photos of groundbreaking space ...

The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current age of 13.8 billion years, according to a new study. “This is the largest radio jet seen thus far in the early ...

And the spacecraft is already getting to work, starting up its science payloads and capturing amazing images of its surroundings and the distant Earth from the lunar surface. — Andrew Jones ...