Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...

Ancient ‘white dwarf’ stars explode and die in more ways than was thought, and observing these violent cosmic deaths could ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with dust in this all-sky map from Planck, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with important NASA contributions Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...

“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 ...

Starscope Monocular Telescope: A revolutionary tool for ... to provide you with a unique and enjoyable experience. one that rivals – and possibly even surpass – the quality of photos you can get with ...

The telescope will be able to look at a patch of sky 100 times larger than both the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope can ... What’s more, all of this data will be ...

The giant, 40-ft. space telescope resting in the airtight, climate-controlled clean-room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., wants nothing to do with the microscopic dust ...

Just like fingerprints and snowflakes, no two galaxies in the entire Universe are exactly alike. But a new discovery 567 million light-years away really is jaw-droppingly unique. There, astronomers ...