The glowing, clumpy streams of material shown moving left and right in this Hubble image are the signposts of star birth. This picture, an assembly of individual images taken by NASA's Hubble Space ...
New infrared image highlights star formation triggered by merger-in-progress. Arp 107, a pair of interacting galaxies, shines ...
Geet, a Class 11 student from Delhi, attended the NASA Space Camp at the US Space and Rocket Centre in June 2024. Her ...
A supermassive black hole was spotted within the galaxy SDSS J1354+1328 located 900 million light-years from Earth. This is ...
Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers says scientists are ‘in striking distance’ of finding life on an exoplanet ...
The most familiar type of telescope is the refractor. It uses two lenses: one to collect the light and form an image, called ...
Travel 500 million light-years into the James Webb Space Telescope's amazing view of the Cartwheel Galaxy. Credit: ESA/Webb, ...
This week, we examine the recent pager explosions in the Middle East, which have reignited concerns about further escalation ...
A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...
It is almost 100 years since scientists discovered the universe is expanding. In the decades that followed, the accuracy of ...
Astronomers study stars by looking at the different colors of light they emit—colors they capture and analyze using ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged a collision between two galaxies that appears to have created a beaming smile in ...