The Hubble Space Telescope is still trucking along more than 30 years after its launch, observing the universe and sending home images for us to marvel at. This week, NASA and ESA highlighted an image ...

The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental ...

However, around 9 billion to 10 billion years after the Big Bang, something — dark energy — caused the universe to start ... finding 40 pairs in just one nebula should be impossible.

The Boomerang Nebula is the coldest place in the universe. But why this regions of space is colder than space itself has remained a mystery — until now. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and busiest star-creating areas in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

The star is located in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud ... and is 10 million times brighter than the sun. Among the largest known stars previously known were the Pistol Star ...

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...

Hubble had already used this knowledge in his 1924 discovery that the Andromeda nebula, containing a variable ... In other words, the universe must be expanding. He announced his finding in ...

An international team of scientists has produced the clearest three-dimensional view yet of the Ring Nebula—one of the ... much of the carbon in the universe. "We can watch that carbon on ...