Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

ELON MUSK CONGRATULATES SPACEX, NASA FOR 'EXCELLENT WORK' RESCUING STRANDED ASTRONAUTS The Met Office in the U.K. said it had received many reports of an "illuminated swirl in the sky" and said it was ...

The NASA astronauts splashed down on Tuesday in ... Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years from the Milky ...

Once mistaken for a fuzzy star cluster, the stunning Squid Galaxy—formally known as Messier 77—has transformed in the eyes of ...

M82 is a nearby galaxy forming stars 10 times faster than the Milky Way due to gravitational interactions with its neighbour, M81. Arp 273, a pair of galaxies on a collision course, with the ...

The Sombrero galaxy shines in a new mid-infrared image, revealing a smooth inner disk and intricate clumps in its outer ring. A pulsar wind nebula resembles a ghostly hand in a composite image ...

"Lurking in our galaxy, approximately 6,000 light-years from Earth, is a monster black hole named Cygnus X-1," Nasa explains. "Don’t get too close, or you’ll become its next meal!" CygnusX-1 ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...