The U.S. Postal Service unveils two striking new Priority Mail stamps showcasing awe-inspiring cosmic images, celebrating America’s continued exploration of deep space.

According to USPS, the new Priority Mail stamp is priced to match the Priority Mail Flat-Rate Envelope, and the new Priority ...

Light emerges from a dusty disk ejected from a waning star's surface just a few hundred years ago in the Egg Nebula. Credit: ESA / NASA / B. Balick (University of Washington) A new Hubble Space ...

The stunning image captures a star's dying moments wrapped in dust, light, and a cosmic conundrum still waiting to be solved. Reading time 2 minutes The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a ...

Hubble image of the Egg Nebula. A disc of gas and dust surrounded by beams of light and concentric rings of dust. (SA / Hubble & NASA, B. Balick (University of Washington)) Hubble may no longer be the ...

Levon Pogosian receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The work described in this article was enabled in part by support provided by the BC DRI Group and ...

Galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391 is on display in this new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The merger is about 670 million light-years away from Earth ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features an uncommon galaxy with a striking appearance. NGC 7722 is a lenticular galaxy located about 187 million light-years away in the constellation ...

The universe is unfathomably vast, and for the astronomers trying to understand it, that means having to gather a commensurately mind-boggling amount of data. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was ...

On April 24, 1990, humanity launched a scientific revolution. I mean “launched” literally: on that date the space shuttle Discovery roared into the sky with the Hubble Space Telescope nestled in its ...

The winner of the largest Powerball jackpot in US history was spotted cruising Los Angeles in a vintage VW minibus that would make the Flower Children proud. Edwin Castro, who won the historic $2.04 ...

Edwin Castro opted for the lump sum, which was just shy of $1 billion, according to California Lottery. Castro bought the ticket that matched all 5 numbers plus the Powerball from Joe's Service Center ...