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

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

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals a cosmic mirage known as an Einstein ring, where the light ...

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 ...

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

Scientists have made a stunning discovery of oxygen in the most distant galaxy known, raising questions about how galaxies ...

Firefly Sparkle,” a galaxy that existed about 600 million years after the big bang, has been imaged by the James Webb Space ...

Europe's Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement" on Thursday after a decade revealing the secrets of ...