The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

The A-12 Archangel was the fastest plane of its time, flying at speeds that seemed almost impossible. Built for top-secret ...

The newly detected Zhúlóng galaxy shares many similar features with the Milky Way galaxy and has been named after a mythical ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

NASA’s Webb Telescope captured NGC 1514’s glowing rings and dust clumps, revealing oxygen but no carbon clues to a dying star ...

Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...

124 light-years away is ​K2-18b, a distant world orbiting a red dwarf star in the constellation Leo. It was discovered in ...

The image was published as part of the 35th anniversary celebrations of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which was ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered Zhúlóng, a candidate for the most distant spiral galaxy in the universe. The ...

NGC 7293, aka the Helix Nebula, is located about 700 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, and belongs to a class ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission to make infrared observations. This was the ...

NASA and ESA have shared a new image of the Eagle Nebula, a nursery for young stars, to celebrate the Hubble Space ...