Despite weighing about a million times the mass of our sun, the black hole wasn't found at the center of its host galaxy, ...

After initial positioning by ground control, the satellite duo’s autonomous system of cameras, LEDs, and laser rangefinders ...

Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory regularly images ...

Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.

Magnetars are among the rarest—and weirdest—denizens of the galactic zoo. They have powerful magnetic fields and may be the ...

To celebrate the Hubble telescope's 35th anniversary, NASA released some striking new images on Wednesday, including a bold rendition of Mars and a stunning photo of a moth-shaped nebula with a ...

NASA has released new high-definition images to mark Hubble's anniversary. The Hubble Space Telescope launched 35 years ago on April 24, 1990. The telescope continues to drive discovery in ...

Check out these star snaps. As the Hubble Space Telescope celebrates the 35th anniversary of its launch into orbit, NASA has released brand new high-definition photos taken with the technological ...

The next day a robotic arm tipped the telescope into orbit from the shuttle’s cargo bay. Within a month Hubble had truly begun its mission, gazing out at the cosmos for NASA and the European ...