The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

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Also joining the RSE’s 2025 new fellows is David Field, chief executive of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs both Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park. He previously served ...

See the iconic Pillars of Creation in this 3D visualization created from James Webb and Hubble Space Telescope data. Credits ...

NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — alongside a sun-focused mission called PUNCH is facing ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed toward orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered 36 new dwarf galaxies around Andromeda and ongoing star formation within them, contradicting previous theories. They appear to undergo unique evolution ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered complex atmospheric changes on SIMP 0136, a free-floating planetary object not orbiting a star. Infrared observations ...

A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 times more massive than our solar system’s gas giant is drifting through the cosmos around 20 light-years from Earth. Although discovered in 2006, the “free ...

The Eagle Nebula (M16) is a star-forming region in the Milky Way galaxy. It's home to the famous "Pillars of Creation" and is located in the constellation Serpens. The Eagle Nebula is a giant ...