Four Oxford University academics have been honoured in the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)'s 2026 Awards , announced today. Each year the RAS Awards ...
A strange, starless cloud on the edge of a nearby galaxy is forcing astronomers to confront one of the biggest unknowns in ...
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of the iconic Hubble Ultra Deep Field using its MIRI ...
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed an infant star 20 times larger than the sun setting interstellar ...
A team of scientists has estimated that the Hubble Space Telescope could reenter Earth’s atmosphere and meet its fiery demise ...
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a jet of gas from a forming star shooting across the dark expanse. The ...
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This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the largest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star. It spans nearly 400 billion miles—40 times the diameter of our solar system. Tilted nearly ...
That's exactly what was seen in a recent image from NASA's and the European Space Agency 's (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope, as ...
Astronomers are studying the hundreds of young, brown dwarf stars inside the stellar nursery. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 ...
Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their results match “local” measurements but clash with early-universe estimates, ...