Hubble’s high-resolution imagery allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field instrument scientist. “We [will] detect hundreds of millions of galaxies to ...

A deep-sea detector glimpsed a particle with 220 million billion electron volts of energy — around 20 times as energetic as any neutrino seen before.

(AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare ... considered close by cosmic standards. A light-year is 5.8 ...

In future, it might also be used to shield astronauts from the hazard of deadly cosmic radiation on long space voyages. One of the major hazards of space travel is prolonged exposure to radiation.

The protostar, called HH 30, is what's known in astronomy as a Herbig-Haro object – a bright patch of cosmic emission associated with newborn stars. The Hubble Space Telescope was the first to ...