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A bright star located in the Milky Way appears nestled in the distant galaxy NGC 5530 due to a chance alignment along the ...
With its origins tracing back to the 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on ...
Uranus seemed like a fairly calm, blue-green planet. But new findings from Hubble paint a different picture of Uranus.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the picturesque spiral galaxy NGC 4941, which lies about 67 million light ...
If you've been wondering how long the day on Uranus is, you probably need to get out more. But if you have, you'll be ...
Budget passback documents reportedly suggest the White House wants to cut NASA's budget by half — possibly closing down ...
An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made new measurements of Uranus' interior ...
According to the "passback" documents given to NASA officials on Thursday, the space agency's science programs would receive ...
The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.
A nearby Earth-sized planet beyond our solar system could soon add to the diversity of known terrestrial worlds with their ...
The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...
Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC 418 lies about 2000 light-years from Earth in the constellation ...