Scientists recently discovered that the giant 'conveyer belt' currents that push star-forged material out of our galaxy and pull it back in can also transport carbon atoms. That means that a good deal ...
Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except ...
Fly about 2,600 light-years to Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Cygnus loop nebula. See images from 2001 and 2020.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million ...
Happy Galaxies Day! A century ago tonight, Edwin Hubble exposed a photograph at the 100-inch telescope on Mt. Wilson whose ...
The Hubble Telescope has spotted an unusual spiral galaxy – 76 million light-years away – that resembles an eye ...
A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...
In Palestine, mammoth balloons are assembled at a NASA complex nestled off a two-lane country road. These balloons can ...
In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...
Hubble made no claims about a creator, but his discoveries and the wonder they evoke have prompted others to reconsider ‘the ...
There are many observations from JWST that have challenged our understanding of how galaxies grow and evolve in the early universe. Just to add another, a galaxy that looks like the Milky Way and is ...
The spot we see today isn’t the same one the Italian astronomer Cassini discovered centuries ago, research shows.