Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.

Proposed budget reductions for the Hubble Space Telescope would impact research and outreach as well as increase the risk to the observatory.

Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery is the most distant ...

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 ...

Can exoplanets have metal-rich atmospheres? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of intern | Space ...

Using the aging Hubble Space Telescope, Achenbach spotted an unusual spiral galaxy quasar with a visible jet. This calls into ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

An international team of scientists has produced the clearest three-dimensional view yet of the Ring Nebula—one of the night ...

"We have by and large been ignoring triples in models and simulations — we're just starting to understand how these types of ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

In an astronomical feat, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers observed a distant galaxy, uncovering ...

I’ve lost count of the number of times I have seen the Ring Nebula. It’s a favourite amongst stargazers around the globe and ...