Recently, the astronomical community has welcomed an exciting discovery: water vapor has been detected in the atmospheres of ...

Westerlund 1, the biggest and closest "super" star cluster to Earth, dazzles in this image released on July 23, 2025. This ...

When the James Webb Space Telescope pointed its lens at the Scorpius constellation, 5,500 light years away, a breathtaking cosmic panorama gradually unfolded before humanity's eyes. In this mysterious ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has been exploring the cosmos for 3 years. See some of the amazing highlights.

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare ...

Every 378 days, Saturn swings into opposition, bringing it closer, brighter, and nearly 10 times easier to observe than at ...

"This tells us that the magnetized plasma swirling near the event horizon is far from static; it’s dynamic and complex, ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly components—gas and dust strewn between stars, known as the interstellar medium.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare visitor from outside the Solar System, might have been spewing gases for months ...

The reason it could be heard by teams on multiple telescopes and in all different directions was because that irritating noise was in fact the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the leftover ...

Multi-year Event Horizon Telescope observations capture evolving polarization patterns around the supermassive black hole and reveal radio emission from the jet base.