Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is by far the most powerful observatory ever launched into space. Even Webb's very first images ...

The galaxy called NGC 1266 is in a phase when it has gone past its burst of star formation but is yet to become a quieter elliptical galaxy.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare alignment between two spiral galaxies. The outer rim of a small, foreground galaxy is silhouetted in front of a larger background galaxy. Skeletal ...

Exactly 35 years ago this week, the Hubble Space Telescope was released from the Space Shuttle Discovery cargo hatch. After a stuttering start, it became one of humankind’s most treasured inventions, ...

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet ...