The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.

A new image released by NASA shows what could be a captivating — and terrifying — event roughly 650 light-years away: a dying ...

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 ...

Eventually, all the star’s outer layers blow away, creating an expanding cloud of dust and gas called a planetary nebula. The death of a star is seen in a supernova, an explosion so bright that it can ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing ...

The stars in this rare high mass and compact binary star system are on a collision course with one another that should result in a special kind of supernova. Astronomers expect them to explode as ...

These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing 10 times brighter than the moon in the night sky. Type 1a supernovae are a special class of cosmic explosion ...

Mar. 18, 2025 — Physicists have measured a nuclear reaction that can occur in neutron star collisions, providing direct experimental data for a process that had ... Combination of Cosmic ...

The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars shaping the nebula to the pillars of dense gas that may be the homes of budding stars. The star V830 Orionis shines ...

China has lost 26 percent of its glacier coverage since the 1960s, with warming trends driving rapid ice loss.

SPHEREx's first images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the telescope is working according to its design.