The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

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

As we enter the penultimate month of 2024, NASA has shared some spectacular images from across the universe and closer to ...

NOAA's new Compact Coronagraph, CCOR-1, onboard the GOES-19 satellite, has begun transmitting its first images, revealing ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a powerful tool for exploring space, launched in December 2021. It can see faraway ...

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

The cutting-edge, $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shared its debut image with the world on July 12, 2022, peering deeper into the universe than any telescope before it. Since then ...

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

China's Einstein Probe, an X-ray telescope in Earth orbit, has already made several discoveries during its initial ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has gifted us with some of the most mesmerizing views of the cosmos, capturing scenes of ...

The galaxies, IC 2163 on the left and NGC 2207, are about 114 light-years away from Earth, located in the Eridanus and Canis ...

This pair of galaxies is currently in the process of colliding and merging into one, a process that will take around a billion years.