Most galaxies fall into these basic types. However, NGC 4694 has properties of both types, complicating its classification, Hubble Space Telescope team members explained in a description of the image.

Also named Xuntian, the CSST is a Hubble-class space telescope that will share an orbit with Tiangong. It will be able to dock with the space station for maintenance, repairs and even upgrades.

Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...

The same goes for the LMC and the SMC. A brand new study based on Hubble Space Telescope observations has thrown weight behind our galaxy's reputation as a bully, showing that the size of the LMC ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope are at the dawn of a new era in exploring the universe. With two powerful new instruments, added to Hubble in February 1997 by the crew of the Space ...

But the Hubble space observatory has picked out Earendel individually by exploiting a natural phenomenon that's akin to using a zoom lens. It's called gravitational lensing and it works like this ...

Hubble’s orbit is decaying and if it degrades ... of the kind used to ferry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station—to go visit Hubble. On Dec. 22 NASA issued a request for other ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...

After challenging NASA and the European Space Agency with its indigenous Hubble telescope, ISRO has begun working on its ...

China has sent a compute module to the Tiangong Space Station featuring Loongson-designed CPUs. The Star Eye system was sent ...