The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured an image of an Einstein ring, a rare optical illusion caused by ...

The uncrewed Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station Friday after having delivered more ...

Learn about a new observation of a galaxy emitting ultraviolet light that broke through the early universe's dense fog.

Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered unusual compact sources of light in the distant Universe, nicknamed little red ...

Unexpected, Bright Hydrogen Emission Caught Astronomers by Surprise In the early universe, space was filled with a dense fog ...

Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.

The James Webb Space Telescope, launched by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), was ...

Lots of us look up at the night sky with wonderment, asking how humans are able to explore the universe. Tracy Drain, a ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

Astronomers have identified a bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in the very early universe. The surprise finding is ...