The Crab Nebula has been one of astronomy’s most scrutinized objects for nearly a millennium, yet Hubble’s first fresh look ...

The powerful gravity of a galaxy embedded in a massive cluster of galaxies in this Hubble Space Telescope photo is producing multiple images of a single distant supernova far behind it. Both the ...

A supernova explosion, from a massive star, occurred roughly 2,400 years ago. Its light reached Earth around 10,000 years ago, appearing brighter than Venus. The explosion's remnants are now visible ...

Astronomers are a step closer to cracking one of the secrets of dark energy—the mysterious force believed to be causing the universe's accelerated expansion.

Explore these 7 beautiful breathtaking images of stars such as V838 Monocerotis, Supernova 1987A, AG Carinae, and many more, ...

Nasa. LARGE FORMAT. HUBBLE telescope. Here, in the rubble of a supernova explosion, HUBBLE highlights a neutron star pushed out of the center of the nebula. Vintage chromogenic print. Numbering in the ...

Yu-Jing Qin, a postdoctoral researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), led a series of spectroscopic ...