WR 104 is notable not just for the rarity of Wolf-Rayet stars in the galaxy, but also for the spiral shape its escaping dust ...

NASA explains that the explosion occurs roughly every 78-80 years when the smaller white dwarf stars accretes too much ...

Event Horizon Telescope: Moving Towards a Close-Up of ... 2024 — An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...

According to an article published by NASA on Wednesday, March 26, the Webb telescope “captured bright auroral activity on Neptune” for the very first time in June 2023. Despite “successful ...

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...

The telescope also spotted more than 50 dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, tracked 150,000 asteroids and detected at least 33 black holes inside it. Gaia has been observing the universe from a ...

Quantitatively upstaging Earth’s guest appearance of a second moon this fall, a recent study found that Saturn has 128 new moons in its orbit. Astronomers confirmed this discovery on March 11 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has studied the puzzling Herbig-Haro object 49/50, created by a nearby forming star. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI On the back end of a telescope, looks can be ...

Credit: J. Beltrán/ESO Work began on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) more than a decade ago, and it's still about three years away from its ribbon-cutting ceremony. But if scientists are ...