By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

However, that isn’t the case. NASA’s SOFIA telescope helped uncover more data about how the Tarantula Nebula’s iconic look formed. Image source: picture alliance / Getty Images ...

The image reveals swirling gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula-our nearby universe’s most prolific star factory, 160,000 ...

A supernova explosion occurred on July 4, 1054, resulting from the death of a star estimated to be nine to eleven times the ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

2/25 Crab Nebula: The Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant from A.D. 1054, is a chaotic cloud of gas and dust, once seen as a “guest star” by ancient astronomers worldwide. (Image: NASA) ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

That’s when she spotted a spooky event: a tarantula crawling right over her doorbell camera. It’s not uncommon for Ring cameras to catch unexpected visitors.

In 2006, a small, little-known company named Space Exploration Technologies Corporation — SpaceX, for short — won a NASA contract to ferry cargo and supplies to the International Space Station.

Researcher Chris Hamilton collects a tarantula in Sonora, Mexico, in an undated photo. Since 2016, Hamilton has been involved in the identification of 15 new species of giant spiders in North America.