The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

Scientists studying one of the earliest known galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that the universe's ...

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

This infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was taken by the onboard Near-Infrared Camera for the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES, program. The NIRCam data was used to ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe ... or the solar wind, capturing continuous 3D images of the Sun’s corona and the solar wind’s ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track the evolution of the solar wind ... to map out our universe like never ...

Researchers have identified a galaxy that existed when the universe was less than 300 million years old. This galaxy, known as JADES-GS-z14-0, is not only distant but also surprisingly mature. It ...

SPHEREx, or the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization ... unseen and unknown aspects of our solar system and galaxy. “These missions cover the full breadth ...

University of Arizona astronomers have learned more about a surprisingly mature galaxy that existed when the universe was just less than 300 million years old—just 2% of its current age.

Nearly a century ago, some astronomers proposed that we might be seeing only half the story of the universe’s expansion. A lesser-known concept, called the “tired light” theory, proposed that photons ...

"These objects really could be anywhere in the solar system at any given time." One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking ...