"For the first time, we have successfully captured a close-up image of a dying star in a galaxy located beyond our Milky Way, ...

Stunning new photographs taken by Wellesley College astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have unveiled a newly ...

Astronomers uncover a young galaxy similar to the Milky Way, shedding light on its early formation just 600 million years ...

Kartheik Iyer, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, was the co-author on the paper on Firefly Sparkle. It ...

Roi Levi leads tours of Iceland and other countries where this year's magnificent aurora borealis is most visible.

Take a look at our favorite space pictures here, and if you're wondering ... edge of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), one of the Milky Way's small satellite galaxies. Because the stars in NGC ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a photo of a spiral galaxy more than ... 26,000 light-years away from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and 13.4 billion light-years away from the oldest ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a baby, Milky Way-like galaxy that formed more than 13 billion years ago. This "Firefly Sparkle" galaxy could reveal how our own galaxy evolved.

The discovery could lead to the finding of more planets. Astrophysicists are marveling at the latest celestial discovery made near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Scientists have ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

“By examining these photos of the Firefly Sparkle, we can better understand how our own Milky Way took shape. ...There is so much going on inside this tiny galaxy, including so many different ...

Astrophysicists are marveling at the latest celestial discovery made near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black ...