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

The new initiative will help students in rural areas learn more about astronomy. Can it inspire the next generation of ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

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 ...

Recent research using data from the Keck Observatory and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt, known as the Altjira system. This discovery ...

Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient ...

Scientists have gathered a 17-year observational baseline of data from Hubble and the Keck Observatory, watching the orbit of the Altjira system's outer object. "Over time, we saw the orientation ...

The “dark energy” field that has fueled the expansion has been weakening over the past 4 billion to 5 billion years, new data ...

After over 35 years of trying, NASA finally confirmed Neptune has auroras. They did this when astronomers were able to ...

Using Webb’s near-infrared spectrograph, astronomers have captured new images of Neptune that finally reveal the planet’s ...