Hubble reveals a chaotic spiral galaxy whose close encounter with a neighbor has ignited a spectacular burst of star birth.

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy 160,000 light-years away, is one of the Milky Way’s closest neighbours.

When 3I/ATLAS swept past the sun in late October 2025, it became only the third confirmed visitor from interstellar space ...

Hubble Space Telescope images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS show a changing jet structure, including a stable sunward jet and three rotating inner jets, raising questions about their origin ...

NASA have released a photograph capturing a vivid image of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy just 160,000 light-years away ...

On record 2025 as one of the most amazing years in contemporary astronomy, providing findings that would turn our collective ...

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed an elliptical galaxy known as ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided some of the most beautiful visuals of the cosmos over the years, and this year was no ...

This results in a composition that is “unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent.” “These new Hubble images show that planet nurseries can be much more active and chaotic than we expected,” Kristina Monsch, ...

Our understanding of the true nature of the cosmos relies on measurements of its expansion, but cosmologists have been arguing back and forth about it for more than 100 years ...

On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Simon Marius. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The Andromeda ...