Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. This galaxy is situated 40 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus, the Wolf, and ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has ...

This breathtaking image of V838 Mon showcases a star located approximately 20,000 light-years from Earth in the Monoceros constellation, situated at the outer edge of the Milky Way galaxy.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided a striking image of NGC 5530, a spiral galaxy located approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus. Unlike grand-design spirals ...

T he universe is expanding at an accelerated rate and our current best theories to explain this is a mysterious form of ...

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Witness the breathtaking beauty of interacting galaxies through 7 stunning images captured by NASA's James Webb Telescope.

Could supernovas have triggered ancient mass extinctions on Earth? New research explores how cosmic explosions may have ...

NGC 4536 is a starburst galaxy with rapid star formation due to gas compression. Its bar-like structure channels gas toward ...