"Photographing Andromeda was a herculean task because the galaxy is a much bigger target on the sky than the galaxies Hubble ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has added another honor to its name by locating a record number of new stars in a faraway ...

Astronomers have unveiled an explosive cosmic fireworks display of stars interacting with their environment. This dazzling ...

That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied hundreds of these "little red dots" and found clues about their identity.

Tuesday, January 14, 2025: NASA astronaut Don Petit captured a stunning image of zodiacal light and our home galaxy, the Milky Way, from the ... (my favorite Crayon color), soon to rise sun ...

The work has revealed that Andromeda is a lot more chaotic than expected. Similar to what recently retired Gaia did for the ...

Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ongoing source of carbon-rich dust in our own Milky Way galaxy in greater detail: Wolf-Rayet 140, a system of two massive stars that follow a ...

This star-studded stellar census comes from a string of observations that aim to systematically explore globular clusters located towards the center of our galaxy NGC 6652 lies in our own Milky Way ...

These are the planets that will be visible with the naked eye. A rare parade of planets will light up the night sky ...

For the third time in a year, a commercial lunar lander backed by NASA is on its way to the moon's surface. The spacecraft built and operated by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace launched in the early ...

For the third time in a year, a commercial lunar lander backed by NASA is on its way to the moon's surface. The spacecraft built and operated by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace launched in the early ...