Astronomers have spotted thousands of young stars huddled around the center of an ancient galaxy, all of which formed nearly simultaneously 4 million years ago. This observation marks the first time ...

A piece of outer space history is coming to Davenport! The Putnam Museum and Science Center is hosting NASA's traveling ...

From the mysterious 'Dark Nebulae' to the majestic sight showing the birth of new stars, check out these 7 enchanting images ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

NASA's Hubble Finds That a Black ... NASA's Webb Peers Into the Extreme Outer Galaxy Sep. 12, 2024 — Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of ...

New for Hallowe'en 2024, astronomers working with the Hubble and Webb space telescopes released an image of two interacting spiral galaxies — IC 2163 and NGC ... When a comet gets closer to the Sun, ...

Pocock, who has worked on the JWST, catalogues the science behind its most stunning images in her new book, Webb's Universe. Here's her pick of the telescope’s best shots ...

In 1920, Hubble and others were debating whether Andromeda and other objects they were seeing were small objects in the Milky Way's outer ... galaxies would be spread more evenly throughout space.

New research offers groundbreaking insights into the formation and dynamical evolution of globular clusters, showing multiple formation events and distinct motions within these ancient star ...

Hubble’s 1929 image of the Barnard Galaxy is “the Mona Lisa of astrophotography” Gad Edery As digital images of outer space grow more slick and advanced, the ethereal romance and pioneering ...