In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

Learn what this survey recorded of exocomet belts, which imaged and identified bands of every size.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared glow of an ancient supernova's light echo, revealing unprecedented 3D details of interstellar dust and gas. The space between stars is ...

"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we just ...

Though space is chock-full of interstellar medium, it tends to be invisible unless lit up by a celestial spotlight. Sometimes ...

The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.

How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

The James Webb Space Telescope captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen using infrared technology, and creating a time lapse of the phenomena.

Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star ...

Beyond making missions safer, this tech also improves the experience for engineers back on Earth, helping them understand the ...

An international team of scientists has produced the clearest three-dimensional view yet of the Ring Nebula—one of the night ...