Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.

The James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have captured amazing views of spiral galaxy NGC 2566. Credit: ...

To mark its third year of highly productive science, astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to scratch ...

A new 527-megapixel image captures two open star clusters, NGC 456 and NGC 460, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. The image uses ...

The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's ...

Astronomers recently confirmed that a mysterious object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS came from interstellar space, blowing through the ...

This stunning 527-megapixel composite reveals both visible and infrared views of young stars, ionized gas, and dust filaments ...

Aster G. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023 Fannie ...

NASA's leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for the agency, which is already bracing for potentially severe funding ...