This Hubble Space Telescope image shows LEDA 42160, a galaxy about 52 million light-years from Earth. The dwarf galaxy is one ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two tangled galaxies, whose interactions have caused knots to form in the ...

Gravitationally lensed quasar: This picture shows a quasar that has been gravitationally lensed by a galaxy in the foreground ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

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

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy UGC 2890. The "galaxy lies around 30 million light-years ...

A group of astronomers analyzing data from the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) say some of the oldest galaxies in our ...

Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum of light. This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, ...

In the constellation Dorado, 49 million light-years from Earth, the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 has been imaged by the NASA ...

Captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, this image features Arp 122—an intriguing formation made up of two galaxies: LEDA 59642 and the spiraled, tilted NGC 6040. This photograph, taken by NASA's ...