American astronomer Dr. Frank Drake came up with an equation in the 1960s to calculate the number of detectable ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

ESA officials said in the statement, which accompanied the new Hubble image. Related: Hubble Space Telescope tells a starry ...

The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe – and in any hypothetical ones beyond it – can be estimated by a new ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391 is on display in this new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for ...

These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.

Data collected by Hubble has also revealed a live Type I supernova called SN 2017GAX, which can be seen tucked just below the ...