Moroccan astrophysicist Meriem Elyajouri has made history as the first Moroccan woman to join the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the operations center for NASA’s flagship space missions, ...

Planetary nebulae, formed when red giant stars exhaust their fuel, can sometimes be spectacular (see the Hourglass Nebula) ...

Hey everyone! So, I’ve been keeping up with all the latest from NASA, and there’s a lot going on. From amazing new telescope ...

"The results provide a rare, detailed look at how planet-forming chemistry operates in the extreme environments around brown ...

Astronomers using the Smithsonian Submillimeter Array on Mauna Kea have helped determine the 3D structure of one of the night sky’s most iconic objects — the Ring Nebula.

The joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope recently observed the remnants of a dying star shedding its outer layers. The resulting colorful cloud is known as ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has caputured new imagery of 9.5 light-years tall portion the Eagle Nebula, located 7000 light-years distant from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll, N. Bartmann (ESA ...

Cepheid stars have predictable brightness changes linked to their periods. This period-brightness relationship lets astronomers calculate a Cepheid's distance. Hubble found a Cepheid in the Andromeda ...

During its 35 years of orbiting the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope has transmitted endless streams of magnificent images, confirmed the existence of "dark matter," and helped track a vagabond black ...

After 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope is still churning out hits. In just the last year or so, scientists have used the school bus–sized observatory to confirm the first lone black hole, reveal ...

Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the space shuttle Discovery, blasted off Earth into history. The next day a ...