The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting the sun 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez In death, there can be great beauty. Astronomers ...

Telescopes are fun to point around the sky, but they’re even better when you have some idea of what you’re actually looking at. Experienced sky-gazers love nothing more than whipping out some ...

April's new moon darkens the skies, making it the perfect time to pick up one of the best telescopes for deep space. As stunning as our own solar system can be, what if you want to gaze a little ...

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?

In a groundbreaking development for astrophysics, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured an unprecedented view of NGC 1514, a planetary nebula located approximately 1,500 light ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a British-U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" indicating ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, the team detected chemical fingerprints within the atmosphere of K2-18b that suggest the presence of dimethyl sulfide or DMS, and potentially dimethyl ...

Every now and then, the star at the center of a planetary system exhausts its hydrogen supply and collapses into a red giant. As the star's outer layers expand, they encroach on planets' orbits ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to its unique mid-infrared observations. Webb shows its rings as “fuzzy ...

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an ...