Peering deep into the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of researchers have found an extremely distant galaxy.…
Optical illusions are awesome. In the center of this image are what appear to be two quasars (or galaxies with…
The dual Atlas V rocket engines roar to life on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral…
What was the Universe like more than 13 billion years ago, just 500 million years after the big bang? New…
On December 18, the Hubble Space Telescope slewed to Comet ISON's expected position and found nothing down to the incredibly…
6,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Puppis an enormous star pulses with light and energy, going through the first…
It's been known since 2005 that Saturn's 300-mile-wide moon Enceladus has geysers spewing ice and dust out into orbit from…
For the first time, astronomers have found conclusive evidence of water in the hazy atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars.…
A lawn sprinkler in space. That's one of the descriptions NASA has for the curious P/2013 P5, which is spewing not…