This towering structure in the Eagle Nebula is a 9.5 light-year-high column of gas and dust from a stellar nursery. This image shows N90, where bright young stars carve a cavity, with distant galaxies ...

The initial findings offer novel perspectives on the relationship between star formation and the evolution of galaxies.

The two astronauts have a busy day ahead of them. Hague and Williams will "patch light leaks in the NICER X-ray telescope, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen using infrared technology, and creating a time lapse of the phenomena.

Proposed budget reductions for the Hubble Space Telescope would impact research and outreach as well as increase the risk to the observatory.

Using the aging Hubble Space Telescope, Achenbach spotted an unusual spiral galaxy quasar with a visible jet. This calls into ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

An international team of scientists has produced the clearest three-dimensional view yet of the Ring Nebula—one of the night ...

"We have by and large been ignoring triples in models and simulations — we're just starting to understand how these types of ...

NASA’s Spitzer Telescope revealed the Milky Way’s hidden center, using infrared to uncover its dense, star-packed core. This ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...