On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes. In August of that year, Hubble made one of ...

Nope. Even at night, there’s some light in the sky. There’s the moon, of course, but also, depending on where you live, ...

Called SN H0pe, it's one of the most distant Type Ia supernovae we've ever seen, and measurements of the rate at which it ...

Since the 1970s, astronomers have observed that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) reside at the centers of most massive ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains ...

“This is the first time that we’re seeing a patchiness inside of the Great Red Spot at these wavelengths, indicating ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a supernova image that could help scientists compute for the Hubble constant.

Research from the Hubble Telescope links supermassive black hole jets to increased nova explosions in double-star systems.

A gravitational lens tripled the event in the night sky and helped astronomers measure the rate at which the universe is ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on an ancient supernova, revealing fresh evidence that a crisis in cosmology ...

Double-star systems that sit near the center of Messier 87 are in the plasma jet splash zone, potentially making novae more ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...