Astronomers have traced the origin of a colossal white dwarf to a catastrophic crash between two dead stars, turning a quiet ...

Let’s all fist bump: Spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way appear to be much larger and more massive than previously believed, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study by researchers ...

NASA’s final mission to the 17-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, which begins May 11, will deliver a new instrument partly built by University of California, Berkeley, physicists to map the structure ...

Unraveling the Merger Story The team used HST Cosmic Origin Spectrograph data to detect C ii and C iii lines. These far‑UV transitions only appear in space‑based spectra because Earth’s atmosphere ...

The circumgalactic medium (CGM), a diffuse gaseous halo surrounding galaxies, plays a critical role in their evolution.

On May 11, 2009, the space shuttle Atlantis launched on the fifth and final servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope. During mission STS-125, astronauts installed two new instruments on the ...

(Nanowerk News) Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except hydrogen and helium — including carbon, oxygen and iron — only ...

In this artistic rendering, light from a distant quasar passes through the halo-like circumgalactic medium of a galaxy on its way to Earth, where it is measured by Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph ...

* Saturday spacewalk poses trickiest repair task so far * Hubble to get new light-splitting spectrograph * Astronauts have struggled with fiddly work in space By Irene Klotz HOUSTON, May 16 (Reuters) ...

A servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope announced today by NASA will include the insertion of a $70 million instrument designed by the University of Colorado at Boulder that was built with ...

Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except hydrogen and helium — including carbon, oxygen and iron — only exist because ...