The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful ...

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

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

Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is ...

O n November 16, 1974, the incredible Arecibo radio telescope was used not to receive radio light from the universe but to ...

Caldwell 99 is a dark nebula — a thick cloud of space dust so dense that it blocks all visible light from the stars and objects lying behind it. The star V830 Orionis illuminates the surrounding cloud ...

The comet has become so bright that enthusiasts can spot and photograph it with regular backyard telescopes. Initial studies suggest that the comet is rich in hydrogen, which gives it a stunning ...

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A jaw-dropping new space image shows one galaxy hiding behind another. The rare cosmic phenomenon, called an Einstein ring, occurs when massive objects can bend light due to their gravitational ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe. The Euclid Space Telescope is focused on surveying about one-third of the night ...