This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

Fastest Known Planetary System May Have Been Pushed by Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole ...

Astronomers have spotted thousands of young stars huddled around the center of an ancient galaxy, all of which formed nearly ...

As gas is stripped from the galaxy, its pressure dynamics shift and either halt or boost star formation, leading to a ...

A galaxy cluster bends light from seven background galaxies around it, letting astronomers peer into space and time ...

In an image snapped by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8, Mexico's most active volcano Popocatépetl can be seen ...

The blood-like hue of the image is owed to a combination of mid-infrared light from Webb with visible and ultraviolet light ...

For a long time, astronomers believed that extremely high-energy radiation was produced only in the jets of active galaxies, far from Earth. But new observations from the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov ...

These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.

Two of them, the Magellanic Clouds, can be seen with the naked eye from Earth's southern hemisphere. They look like detached scraps of the Milky Way.) The Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy ...