A new image resembling a Christmas wreath captures young stars lighting up dense, dark clouds of dust. The image features NGC 602, a star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy to the ...
Stunning new photographs taken by Wellesley College astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have unveiled a newly ...
It’s explored our own Solar System, studied the atmospheres of distant planets in search of signs of life and probed the ...
What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...
A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud and ...
On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured 19 spiral galaxies "face-on" in near- and mid-infrared. The images "show stars, gas, and dust on the smallest scales ever observed beyond our own galaxy," ...