The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

A picturesque galaxy 40 million light-years away, NGC 5530 dazzles with its patchy spiral arms in the constellation Lupus.

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the ...

Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...

Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.

For over a century, astronomers have marveled at the beauty and complexity of spiral galaxies, which feature arms covered in ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found. It’s 13.4 billion light-years away from Earth, according to new research.

Though tiny, this newfound satellite galaxy around M31 offers big lessons — and questions — about how galaxies evolve.

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...