The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

You can make the case that none of them are in true color. But then again, if they were, they’d be unable to reveal the true ...

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has done it again. Though it's notoriously difficult to snap direct images of distant ...

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous spiral galaxy bursting with new star formation.

The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Here's what to know.