The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two tangled galaxies, whose interactions have caused knots to form in the ...

A celestial light show illuminates a distant spiral galaxy, where a hidden supernova briefly outshines its stellar neighbors ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

This mid-infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope excels at showing where the cold dust, set off in white, glows ...

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe three early ultra-massive galaxies, formed shortly after the ...

Space-based telescopes are remarkable. Their view isn't obscured by the weather in our atmosphere, and so they can capture ...

The National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) has released images of five galaxies in the local universe, taken with the ...

Over the quarter century I’ve been writing this column, I’ve been flabbergasted by the advances in telescopes for backyard ...

The spiral arms of nearby galaxy Messier 81 is captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This galaxy is easily visible ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Instrument provides a field of view 100 times greater than the Hubble ...

The European Southern Observatory captured a Halloween-themed image of the Dark Wolf Nebula, a hauntingly dense cloud of ...