Magnetars are among the rarest—and weirdest—denizens of the galactic zoo. They have powerful magnetic fields and may be the ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

The Hubble Space Telescope may have just celebrated ... in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The supernova remnant in question is MC SNR J0519–6902, first ...

This time, the focus is on the remains of a star that exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the ...

The birth of new stars is arguably the one of the most enchanting sights in the entire cosmos Check out these 7 captivating ...

The Hubble Space Telescope may have just celebrated ... similarities with young supernova remnants in the LMC and the Milky Way. This led them to suggest that MC SNR J0519–6902 is around 2,000 ...