HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

Scientists have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy. Astronomers from two separate research teams made the ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a beautiful juxtaposition of the nearby protostellar outflow known ...

The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

A picturesque galaxy 40 million light-years away, NGC 5530 dazzles with its patchy spiral arms in the constellation Lupus.

Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

Discovered last year, JADES-GS-z14-0 is the most distant confirmed galaxy ever found: it is so far away, its light took 13.4 billion years to reach us, meaning we see it as it was when the Universe ...

Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a breathtaking image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430, situated 100 million light-years from Earth in the Leo Minor constellation.

A Swarm of Dwarf Galaxies Buzz Around Our Milky Way's Twin Imagine the Milky Way and Andromeda as two massive aircraft ...

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous spiral galaxy bursting with new star formation.