Two mighty galaxies far away are smashing into each other, as vast trails of gas and dust mix and merge into what will ultimately be a single galaxy. And the fury of the Antennae extends far from the ...

A football field-sized super balloon floating through the stratosphere with a high-tech telescope is taking stunning images of distant galaxies that NASA is sharing with stargazers. The Super Pressure ...

The Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) that launched on a scientific super pressure balloon April 16, 2023, local time from Wānaka, New Zealand, captured its first research images ...

A NASA balloon-borne telescope captured phenomenal images of the Tarantula Nebula and Antennae Galaxies from 108,000 feet above Earth's surface. The Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) ...

Space Telescope Science Institut / NASA, ESA, CSA, J. DePasquale The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a stunning new image of what scientists call a pair of actively forming stars. But ...

The Milky Way is part of a billion-light-year-wide structure called the Supergalactic Plane, but we don’t exactly fit in. Most of the galaxies in the Supergalactic Plane are messy elliptical blobs. In ...

From a 'potentially hazardous' asteroid to a pair of galaxies unable to quell their attraction, here are five of the most beautiful heart-shaped objects seen in space. When you purchase through links ...

The Tarantula Nebula taken by the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT). Credits: NASA, Durham University The Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) that launched on a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a stunning new image of what scientists call a pair of actively forming stars. But eagle-eyed viewers were quick to seize on an even tinier — and to ...