It started, as many cosmic enigmas do, with a dim dot of light on a Hubble Space Telescope photo the sort that professional ...

On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the remains of a frozen, Pluto-like world being devoured by a distant white dwarf star.

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Astronomers using JWST have captured the clearest view yet of a doomed red supergiant star just before it exploded, solving a ...

I/ATLAS, a mysterious interstellar object racing toward the Sun, is baffling scientists with its speed and origin. Some ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, a cornerstone of modern astronomy, has been providing breathtaking images and invaluable data for ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. The Andromeda galaxy is the galaxy next door, a very faint, fuzzy thing ...

We all need some space sometimes—but it's harder to find than you might think. How far into our universe do we have to go to ...

T H E T O P T E N L I S T (CNN) -- Today, the Hubble Space Telescope is Earth's orbiting eye to the heavens, beaming images of celestial phenomenon both near and far back home. Launched by NASA in ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has broken the distance limit for galaxies and uncovered a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies that have never been seen before. Garth Illingworth, ...