Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

NASA has discovered a supermassive black hole in galaxy M87, 52 million light-years away from Earth, using Hubble Space ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

A picturesque galaxy 40 million light-years away, NGC 5530 dazzles with its patchy spiral arms in the constellation Lupus.

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

Cosmologists are using cutting-edge computational tools to uncover the secrets of dark matter and dark energy, which together ...

Scientists have taken the clearest-ever images of the universe when it was just 380,000 years old—essentially a baby picture ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever found. It’s 13.4 billion light-years away from Earth, according to new research.

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent ...