Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has detected a white dwarf star that consumed fragments of a Pluto-like object. Space ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains ...

Hubble discovered a white dwarf planet devouring a Pluto-like object, revealing debris rich in water and nitrogen.

Hubble has uncovered a rare ultra-massive white dwarf created in a violent star merger. Once thought to be ordinary, the star ...

"It's a discovery that underlines things may be different from what they appear to us at first glance." Astronomers using the ...

I’ve downloaded this and it is fantastic. The Space Telescope Science Institute is offering a free 85 page iBook that contains some of the absolutely fantastic images taken by the Hubble Space ...

On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space for $10 billion. A month later, it reached its goal in solar orbit at a ...

The universe is a slow-changing place. While it's mostly true that the heavens and the deep-sky objects in it will look ...

When the James Webb Space Telescope pointed its lens at the Scorpius constellation, 5,500 light years away, a breathtaking cosmic panorama gradually unfolded before humanity's eyes. In this mysterious ...

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...

Astronomers uncover a cosmic mystery: an extra image in an Einstein Cross points to a massive dark matter halo.