The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...
A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...
WASHINGTON — Neptune's glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of ...
Much like the northern and southern lights on Earth, auroras occur when charged solar particles collide with a planet’s ...
Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...
The first data generated by the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope, released this week, offers an opportunity to ...
The world's largest telescope is almost as big as your house—and it’s unlocking the universe’s biggest mysteries.
It's well known that the universe began in an explosion known as the Big Bang, but scientists now say that it might end with ...
When Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft malfunctioned, Williams and Wilmore became long-term residents on the space station—and ...
Germany’s members of the Euclid Consortium have played a significant role in producing the mission’s first large set of survey data which the European Space Agency has just released. The data includes ...
With the first large dataset from the Euclid space telescope, researchers discover 26 million galaxies and the detailed ...
Covering a vast sky area in three mosaics, the data release also includes numerous galaxy clusters, active galactic nuclei and transient phenomena ...