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

Astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan talked about her work in black hole origins, and challenges of being a woman in STEM ...

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 ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...

People in Sioux Falls are marveling at Tuesday’s safe return of the two American astronauts who were stuck in space for nine ...

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

SPHEREx begins its mission to scan hundreds of millions of galaxies, while companion satellites track solar winds.

NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...