Learn how Hubble is measuring the expansion rate of the Universe in this new explainer from NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

Galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391 is on display in this new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The merger is about 670 million light-years away from Earth ...

The universe is so vast, and the difficulty of discovering all that there is out in the cosmos is so great, that one might as well count all the grains of sand in the Sahara. But now, with the help of ...

What we know so far: Stars, like all living organisms, age according to predictable physical laws – or so astronomers once thought. Yet scattered throughout the Milky Way's oldest star clusters are ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is a key spot for astronomers to study star formation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of science's biggest questions—the Hubble tension. The quest to determine how fast ...

One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, but defining the rate of that expansion is challenging. The rate of ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a trio of young stars ...

EXCLUSIVE: Edwin Hodge (FBI: Most Wanted, Winning Time) has been cast as a guest star on Season 2 of the hit CBS series Matlock, from Jennie Snyder Urman. Hodge will play Langston, the kind of guy who ...

Lensing in action: A montage of eight time-delay gravitational lens systems. There is an entire galaxy at the centre of each image, and the bright points in rings around them are gravitationally ...

Edwin "Dutch" Eggleston It is with a great deal of sadness that we share the news that Edwin "Dutch" Eggleston lost his long and arduous battle with Parkinson's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia on ...

Since its launch in 1990, Hubble has transformed our understanding of the cosmos. The space telescope revealed a universe teeming with galaxies, stars, and planets instead of what we once saw as empty ...