It was studied along with other galaxies like the nearby NGC 3109, shown above, to learn how galaxies form, as part of a project called The VLT Survey Telescope Survey of Mass Assembly and Structural ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope has received its Optical Telescope Assembly, paving the way for its mission to explore the ...

A cargo spacecraft has arrived at China’s Tiangong space station, delivering supplies, experiments and equipment to support crewed missions. The Tianzhou-8 spacecraft launched atop a ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning phenomenon happening in the outer reaches of the Milky Way galaxy.

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a ...

Check out these 8 images of galaxies, star clusters, supernovas and others captured by NASA James Webb Space Telescope in ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa — A piece of outer space history is ... Hubble has captured images of star births and deaths, comets crashing ...

The skies over Iowa recently have been filled with Northern Lights on many nights and a comet, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) ...

Astronomers have spotted thousands of young stars huddled around the center of an ancient galaxy, all of which formed nearly ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

The Merger: James Webb Space Telescope depicts IC 1623 ... Tarantula Nebula: This mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula ...