It represents the final stages of a star's life, with its outer layers expelled into space. The Pillars of Creation are towering gas and dust structures in the Eagle Nebula, where new stars form. They ...

The Phantom Galaxy (M74) has been imaged in infrared and optical light using the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope. The spiral galaxy is about 32 million light-years from Earth.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1559. It is about 35 million light-years away in the southern constellation Reticulum. Credit: Space.com | ...

It all started with a Big Bang – and now scientists are on a quest to unravel the mystery behind the birth of the universe.

Astrophysicists from Durham University have developed a new model to estimate the likelihood of intelligent life forming in ...

For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered” planets around a nearby star, only to retract the claims. But the latest ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the cosmic tangle that is MCG+05-31-045, a pair of interacting galaxies located 390 million light-years away and a part of the Coma galaxy cluster.

The countdown to launch has begun for a small Washington state company developing something long dreamed of in the space ...

Asteroids hiding in the Sun’s glare, some large enough to destroy cities, pose a hidden threat. New infrared telescopes aim ...

A small asteroid, 2024 UQ, hit Earth's atmosphere with minimal warning, highlighting gaps in detection systems. The next ...

A group of international astronomers have discovered three mysterious, ultra-massive galaxies in the early universe. The ...

On November 16, 1974, humans sent their first message to the stars in an attempt to contact extraterrestrials. They did this ...