Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years ...

Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James ...

NASA has captured breathtaking images of seven rare and stunning interacting galaxies, showcasing cosmic collisions, ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has peered deeper than ever into a quasar, revealing a bunch of “weird” features in its […] ...

The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.

There are questions that have been on the human mind for hundreds of years. Many of them, of course, are related to the ...

Sgr A* possesses roughly 4 million times the mass of our sun and is located about 26,000 light-years from Earth. A light-year ...