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 James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope recently released a chilling view of two spiral galaxies, IC ...

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 ...

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

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

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The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...

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 ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

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

Astronaut Sunita Williams, 59, experienced significant weight loss during her 155-day stay on the International Space Station ...