When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

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A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

Are we alone? Scientists investigate the rarity of life on Earth-like planets with groundbreaking telescopes and methods.

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

Explore how the Webb telescope reveals a massive black hole from the early universe living in a dormant state for most of its ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

SPHEREx's new images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the ...