NASA's SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) has ...

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Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

Experts have unveiled the most detailed images yet of the universe’s infancy, capturing light that traveled for more than 13 billion years.

While life on Earth has been dramatic enough lately, there’s also been an unusual amount of news from space in the early ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected unexpected hydrogen radiation coming from a galaxy that existed in the early ...

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 ...

Physics Professor Colin Hill and collaborators have released the clearest images to-date of the universe in its infancy.

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

WASHINGTON – Neptune's glowing auroras are captured in the best detail yet by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Hints of ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.