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Hubble's uncovers ultra-massive white dwarf star formed from a merger with another star. They may be more common than previously suspected..
The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is similar in size to Earth, rocky, ...
This Hubble image features a portion of the star-forming region called the Tarantula Nebula located about 160,000 light-years away.
Professional learning experiences are integral to the enhancement of classroom instruction. Teachers, at the forefront of Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) education, play a key ...
The supermassive black hole imaged by the EHT is located in the center of the elliptical galaxy M87, located about 55 million light years from Earth. This image was captured by FORS2 on ESO's Very ...
On July 16, 2025, more than 400 public library staff from across the United States joined a powerful webinar, Serving Neurodiverse Library Patrons and Colleagues, hosted by two NASA Science Activation ...
Hubble takes the sharpest image, to date, of comet 3I/ATLAS, allowing astronomers to more accurately estimate the size of its nucleus.
NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features two interacting galaxies that are so intertwined, they have a collective name – Arp 91. Their delicate galactic dance takes place more than 100 ...
The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, recall the pattern at the center of a sunflower. So the nickname for this ...
A new catalog produced by a French-led international team of astronomers shows that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 294 gamma-ray-emitting pulsars, while another 34 suspects ...
By Alan Buis, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory The year 2020 will be remembered for many things, not the least of which were a series of devastating fires around the globe that bear the fingerprints ...