Located billions of light-years away, the "Cosmic Owl" is a pair of colliding ring galaxies spotted by the JWST. It's also an ...

From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our ...

Cosmic dust does far more than float through space. It's the raw material from which stars, planets and possibly even life ...

Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

The Hestia is the first ever smartphone-based telescope, letting you capture stunning views of the sun, moon, and beyond, day or night. And right now, you can get one for the best price online ...

Sleeping Bear’s star parties have been popular each summer. Check the calendar to find the next one. If you’re not quite a night owl, consider Sleeping Bear’s weekly Twilight Talks.

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

The blue dots within galaxies are star-forming regions with younger, hotter stars. But each snippet shared on Monday is but a tiny piece of the full image produced by the telescope.

The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable planets. Future observatories will use the data to narrow down the list ...

Hubble Space Telescope 1998, Sculptor Galaxy ESO Photo: Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory have captured an ultra-detailed image of the Sculptor galaxy, which they say helps them ...

It is a starburst galaxy, where stars are being constantly formed. The detail of the new image allows scientists to see the building blocks themselves – the stars, gas and dust – in fine detail.