It's one of the few known spiral galaxies with a central bulge that extends from its disk at a right angle.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the R Aquarii binary star system from 2014-2023. The images have been time-lapsed here to show the evolution of the region. Credit: NASA, ESA, M.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope completed its 200,000th orbit around Earth on Sept. 19, marking another milestone for an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Credit: NASA/ESA) It's been 35 years since Hubble came online, so in honor of the intrepid telescope's 35th anniversary, we've ...

A new Hubble image shows NGC 4698, a spiral galaxy 55 million light-years away with an unusual structure hidden beneath its calm appearance.

The Hubble Space Telescope's surprising longevity is giving astronomers a chance to see not only what distant objects look like up close but also how they change over time. This week, NASA dropped a ...

Though the spiral galaxy in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope seems serene, it hides a chaotic secret. This galaxy is NGC 4698, and it lies about 55 million light-years away in ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a huge, evolving atmospheric wave with 10 sides wrapped around Saturn’s south pole ...

The French astronomer Charles Messier (1730-1817) was fascinated by comets, and spent his life gazing through small refracting telescopes to identify new examples of these dynamic visitors. But ...

Exactly 35 years ago this week, the Hubble Space Telescope was released from the Space Shuttle Discovery cargo hatch. After a stuttering start, it became one of humankind’s most treasured inventions, ...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the galaxy NGC 1546. NASA, ESA, STScI, David Thilker (JHU) The Hubble Space Telescope has been through some troubles of late, and the way that it ...

In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous — and frequently photographed — supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit One of the ...