"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids ...

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has done it again. Though it's notoriously difficult to snap direct images of distant planets, the overachieving observatory has managed to capture four of them in a ...

The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show "3 ...

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C.

Hubble's optical stability ... After being gravitationally stripped of gas and some stars, it continued along its orbit. Galaxy M32 contains older stars, but there is evidence it had a flurry ...

Hubble's survey of Andromeda focused on 36 dwarf ... The survey also revealed that half of Andromeda's dwarf galaxies orbit in a unique, flat plane, all moving in the same direction — a ...