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Space photo of the week: Bizarre 1-armed spiral galaxy stuns Hubble scientistsAstronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away. Remarkably, the spiral galaxy has only one visible arm.
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Space photo of the week: Iconic 'Eagle Nebula' gets a major glow-up on Hubble's 35th anniversaryOne of the Hubble Space Telescope's most iconic images has been reprocessed using the latest techniques.
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Scientists finally know how long a day on Uranus isAn 11-year Hubble study has finally revealed how long a day lasts on Uranus.
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Space photo of the week: Hubble hunts a stellar 'imposter' hiding in the Great BearThe legendary Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze to the Ursa Major-adjacent galaxy UGC 5460, revealing spiral arms, star clusters and a possible supernova "imposter".
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'This doesn't appear in computer simulations': Hubble maps chaotic history of Andromeda galaxy, and it's nothing like scientists expectedAn ambitious new survey by the Hubble Space Telescope offers the first bird's-eye view of all known dwarf galaxies orbiting the Andromeda galaxy. The data suggests Andromeda had a chaotic past unlike anything scientists expected.
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'Cosmic Horseshoe' may contain black hole the size of 36 billion suns — one of the largest ever detectedThe "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the light from a galaxy behind it. Now, astronomers know where it gets this mass from.
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'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launchSuch a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, affecting science.
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Hubble telescope spots 'blue lurker' star feeding off of its conjoined siblingsA rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings.
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'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to createThe new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with more than 200 million individually resolved stars.
