Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic alignment featuring a newborn star’s outflow, known as ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...

Scientists have announced the surprising discovery of oxygen and other heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

Scientists, using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, have found that the Milky Way’s graceful spiral structure is primarily shaped by two arms extending from a central bar of stars.

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has provided new insights into a galaxy that seems to clear the fog surrounding the early universe. This finding not only ...

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A different group of scientists is hoping to fix at least one of these problems for one species, by moving an entire forest ...

New James Webb Space Telescope captures a "cosmic tornado" with imagery of the dramatic outflow from a newly formed star.