Messier 81, a grand design spiral galaxy 12 million light-years from Earth. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Willner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) / Wikimedia Commons The Webb Space ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...

A newly released Hubble pic shows the galaxy LEDA 22057, where the supernova explosion occurred. The spiral galaxy's swirling ...

The interferometer team, led by Steve Ertel, associate astronomer of Steward Observatory, observed several phenomena ...

Gas and dust within the image, captured in infrared light by the Webb Telescope's filters, cascade like billowing pink, ...

Spiral galaxies, elliptical galaxies and lenticular ... As many as one in five people are super-sensitive to aldehydes and ...