The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is located about 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. It is a well-known stellar nursery with vast swaths of cosmic dust and gas from ...

Using infrared images captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have found that the Milky Way’s graceful spiral shape is mainly made up of just two major arms extending from a central bar ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

A new study suggests the universe might be slowly rotating, completing a full revolution every 500 billion years. This subtle ...

As the Hubble Space Telescope approaches 35 years since its launch, marking over three decades of incredible images of the universe and science, NASA and its partner, the European Space Agency, are ...

Along with researching gravitational waves, Holz heads the Science and Security Board at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists ...

They have refined the estimate of the black hole mass, ruling out the possibility of it being a neutron star. It is thought ...

The photo of a 9.5-light-year-long cloud within the Eagle Nebula celebrates the space telescope’s upcoming 35th birthday.

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

Compelling evidence of a long-sought black hole at the center of the galaxy M83 has been unveiled using the James Webb Space ...