Beyond Our Solar System

Featured here in a new image from Hubble, NGC 613 is a lovely example of a barred spiral galaxy.

NASA and Poland have agreed to cooperate on a NASA heliophysics mission, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP).

Astronomers are winding back the clock on the expanding remains of a nearby, exploded star.

How dark does space get? NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is helping answer that question.

Astronomers have discovered a cosmic equivalent of Old Faithful – they've found a distant galaxy that erupts roughly every 114 days.

The telescope will be able to photograph an area of the sky at least 100 times larger than Hubble with the same crisp sharpness.

Most likely a gas giant planet like Jupiter or Saturn, KOI-5Ab is unusual in that it orbits a star in a system with two other companion stars.

In 2020, astronomers discovered a magnetar. New observations from Chandra help support the idea that it is also a pulsar.

In the last century alone, NGC 6946 has experienced 10 observed supernovae, earning its nickname as the Fireworks Galaxy.

NASA has chosen four small-scale astrophysics missions for further concept development in a new program called Pioneers.

The observatory will map the sky to study the rapid expansion of the universe after the big bang.

Pareidolia is the phenomenon where we see recognizable shapes in clouds, rock formations, or otherwise unrelated objects or data.

This fictional doughnut-shaped space colony is one of many artistic renderings born out of an art program at NASA's Ames Research Center.

Gaseous swirls of hydrogen, sulfur, and hydrocarbons cradle a collection of infant stars in this composite image of the Orion Nebula.

Newborn stars, hidden behind thick dust, are revealed in this image of a section of the so-called Christmas Tree Cluster.

The narrow galaxy elegantly curving around its spherical companion in this Hubble image is a fantastic example of an Einstein ring.

Despite searching with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble, astronomers have no evidence of a distant black hole.

Hubble captured this image of Messier 107 – one of more than 150 globular star clusters found around the disc of the Milky Way galaxy.

Scientists will use the James Webb Space Telescope to survey more than 50 planet-forming disks to learn how solar systems develop.

Hubble turned 30 this year, but you're getting the gift: Dozens of newly processed images.

A planet in an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away may offer a clue to a mystery closer to home: the hypothesized "Planet Nine."

This Hubble image shows a post-starburst galaxy, which is a product of galaxies that have merged within the past billion years.

Astronomers have caught a rare look at a rapidly fading shroud of gas around an aging star.

This Hubble image shows a close-up view of galaxy NGC 2770. This galaxy is intriguing, as over time it has hosted four different observed supernovae.

New Hubble data help explain the reason behind the missing dark matter in galaxy NGC 1052-DF4, which is about 45 million light-years away.