NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-Like Flashes in a Suspected Binary Protostar

Two of NASA's great observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, have teamed up to uncover…

NASA Hosts Workshop For Study On Applications For Large Space Optics

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center will host a national workshop for the Study on Applications for…

Herschel Finds Star Possibly Making Planets Past Its Prime

A star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may in…

NASA’S Galex Reveals The Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy

The spectacular barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades.…

SOFIA Spots Recent Starbursts in the Milky Way Galaxy’s Center

Researchers using NASA's SOFIA flying observatory capture new images of a huge ring of gas and…

NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a brown…

NASA’s Hubble Reveals Rogue Planetary Orbit for Fomalhaut B

Newly released NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star…

NASA, ESA Telescopes Find Evidence for Asteroid Belt Around Vega

Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the…

NASA’s NuSTAR Catches Black Holes in Galaxy Web

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, set its X-ray eyes on a spiral galaxy and…

Galaxy’s Gamma-Ray Flares Erupted Far From Its Black Hole

In 2011, a months-long blast of energy launched by an enormous black hole almost 11 billion…