A rare ring of light surrounding a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away from Earth has been discovered by a space ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday. The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... The Spiderweb Protocluster has long been a focal point for astronomers studying the formation of large-scale cosmic structures. This protocluster, which ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings surround its central point. Technically known as LEDA 1313424, the galaxy ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

Thad McCauley wanted to be an astronaut when he grew up. Instead, he became an art teacher. But now his art is in space.

“This detailed look at the resolved stars will help us to piece together the galaxy’s past merger and interaction history,” Williams adds. Hubble, however, has its limits—the space ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its history. The Hubble survey, assembled from over 1,000 orbits and ...