Washington, June 14 (ANI): Researchers has found evidence that an extrasolar planet may be forming quite far from its star-about twice the distance Pluto is from our Sun.

Washington, June 5 (ANI): A mysterious object discovered by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2010 has been identified as a dying asteroid.

Washington, June 5 (ANI): A flash of light from a stellar outburst observed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a rare look at the 3-D structure of material ejected by an erupting nova.

Washington, June 4 (ANI): NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth-sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri.

Washington, May 24 (ANI): New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the real shape of the Ring Nebula.

Washington, May 16 (ANI): Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., completed one of the most delicate performances of their lives and meticulously implanted part of the eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope.

Washington, May 10 (ANI): The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found signs of Earth-like planets in the atmospheres of a pair of burnt-out stars in a nearby star cluster.

Washington, April 24 (ANI): Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have captured images of a recently discovered, highly active comet that will skim 730,000 miles above the Sun's surface on Nov. 28 and has the potential to be readily visible from Earth.

Washington, April 24 (ANI): A galaxy turning gas into stars with almost 100 percent efficiency, a rare phase of galaxy evolution that is the most extreme yet observed, has been discovered.

Washington, Apr 20 (ANI): ESA's Herschel space observatory and the NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope have captured new images of the Horsehead Nebula and its turbulent environment.

Washington, Apr 7 (ANI): Two groups of astronomers independently detected a yellow supergiant (YSG) star at a location closely matching that of the supernova SN 2011dh in the M51 galaxy through images obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) before the explosion.

Washington, April 5 (ANI): Using data gathered by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers at The Johns Hopkins University has found the farthest supernova so far of the type used to measure cosmic distances.

Washington, March 29 (ANI): The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a vivid image of spiral galaxy Messier 77 -- a galaxy in the constellation of Cetus, some 45 million light-years away from us. Also known as NGC 1068, Messier 77 is one of the most famous and well-studied galaxies. It is a real star among galaxies, with more papers written about it than many other galaxies put together.

Washington, Mar 22 (ANI): University of Colorado Boulder astronomers have claimed that "sideline quasars" teamed up with one of the brightest quasars glowing in the universe 11 billion years ago in order to prevent small galaxy formation.

Washington, March 8 (ANI): Astronomers has taken an important step closer to finding the birth certificate of a star that's been around for a very long time, thanks to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Washington, February 22 (ANI): NASA's Hubble Space Telescope peered deep into the vast stellar halo that envelops our Milky Way galaxy and uncovered tantalizing evidence for the possible existence of a shell of stars that are a relic of cannibalism by our Milky Way.

Washington, February 21 (ANI): When it comes to stars in young star clusters the dynamics in these crowded environments cannot be simply explained by the pull of gravity, researchers have found.

Washington, February 8 (ANI): Two of NASA's great observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, have teamed up to uncover strobe-like flashes in a suspected binary protostar.

Washington, February 6(ANI): Combination of data from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and observations by amateur astronomers has produced one of the best images yet of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106.

Washington, February 6(ANI): Renowned astrophotographer Robert Gendler has taken science data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) archive and combined it with his own ground-based observations to assemble a photo illustration of the magnificent spiral galaxy M106.

Washington, Feb 1 (ANI): Astronomers have reported observing an unusual "baby" star that periodically emits infrared light bursts, suggesting it may be twins, that is, a binary star.

Washington, Feb 1 (ANI): Scientists have developed a new technique of measuring the mass of supermassive black holes, which could revolutionise our understanding of how they form and help to shape galaxies.

Washington, January 12 (ANI): In a new study, researchers have provided direct empirical evidence for the pristine gas that should be falling onto galaxies using new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): Newly released NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of a vast debris disk encircling the nearby star Fomalhaut and a mysterious planet circling it, may provide forensic evidence of a titanic planetary disruption in the system.

Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a brown dwarf, creating the most detailed "weather map" yet for this class of cool, star-like orbs.