LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image ...

"The Hubble tension is now a Hubble crisis." The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that ...

Explore the breathtaking beauty of the cosmos with seven incredible images of star clusters and galaxies captured by NASA.

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to transform our understanding of the universe. By combining its advanced resolution and sensitivity with the magnification power of gravitational ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have captured a breathtaking new image of thousands of galaxies, thanks to the ...

In the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, astronomers spotted the largest explosion in the universe consisting of energy equal to a ...

Westerlund 1 is one of the closest and most massive young star-forming clusters in our galaxy, and it contains many rare supergiant and hypergiant stars, with masses ranging from eight to 100 ...

Astronomers studying FCC 224, an ultra-diffuse galaxy, have discovered luminous, overmassive globular clusters, providing key ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...

Astronomers discover Inkathazo, a massive giant radio galaxy spanning 3 million light-years, using South Africa's MeerKAT ...

Abell 370 galaxy cluster. The strong gravitational magnification ... "We now have the capability to resolve stars that were previously outside of our capability." Launched on Dec. 25, 2021 ...