Space-based telescopes are remarkable. Their view isn't obscured by the weather in our atmosphere, and so they can capture ...

A celestial light show illuminates a distant spiral galaxy, where a hidden supernova briefly outshines its stellar neighbors ...

A Chinese X-ray space telescope has already made several discoveries during its initial commissioning phase. The Einstein ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming that it is not surrounded by any exoplanets, JWST images reveal. And ...

Recent findings from the International Space Station address wound healing, fine motor control in space, and radiation ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...

Astronomers have pointed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble at nearby star Vega. Surprisingly, they haven't found ...

As gas is stripped from the galaxy, its pressure dynamics shift and either halt or boost star formation, leading to a ...

This week, see how new telescopes may reshape how astronomers view the cosmos, discover forgotten medieval cities, learn ...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released a pic of a "creepy" pair of giant "eyes" floating in space.

A decision to cut spending on the Hubble Space Telescope by 10% and on the Chandra X-ray Observatory by 40% has been ...