“Such stunning cosmic coincidences reveal so much about nature.” ~ Leonidas Moustakas, Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like...

  NGC 6872 and IC 4970 are two galaxies in the process of undergoing a collision. IC 4970 is the small galaxy at the top of the image that, thanks to Chandra and Spitzer data. New images show...

NASA scientists hope to better understand exactly how and why plants grow differently in space in an experiment named Tropi so that astronauts may be able to grow plants as part of life support systems...

    No galaxies have been seen before at such early epochs as that seen in this deepest image of the universe ever taken in near-infrared light by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The faintest and...

People used to think that the heavens were a vast clockwork, with planets and moons moving in circular orbits like a vast timepiece.  Recent advances have shown us that this stellar...