On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has caputured new imagery of 9.5 light-years tall portion the Eagle Nebula, located 7000 ...

Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 ...

NGC 1786’s mixed-age stars suggest globular clusters aren’t one-generation wonders, offering fresh clues to galaxy formation far beyond the Milky Way.

U-M astronomy is helping understand this fast, old and large comet that was born outside our galactic neighborhood This diagram shows the trajectory ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

A new analysis of exoplanets has shown interstellar contamination from nearby stars could change where to search for ...

Our galaxy may reside in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic bubble that accelerates local expansion, potentially settling the ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP) captured some mind-blowing images of the Sun from only 3.8 million miles away.

On 26 September 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) deliberately slammed a vending-machine-size spacecraft into ...

Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby galaxy.