NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected and "weighed" a galaxy - seen 600 million years after the Big Bang - that is ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have observed a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth, and ...

One of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize, the Queen offers observers many worthy sights.

Researchers discover 44 stars 6.5 billion light-years away using gravitational lensing Cosmic magnification reveals ...

Carbon, essential for life, journeys through space in a galactic recycling process, fueling star and planet formation.

The atmosphere, a thin veil of molecules enveloping Earth, reaches about 20 miles (32 kilometers) above the planet's surface.

In the North East we are lucky to have just about the darkest skies possible above our head in Northumberland National Park.

Carl Sagan famously said, "We are made of star-stuff," but even he didn't realize just how far that star stuff traveled ...

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...

Researchers have finished equipping the Subaru Telescope with a new special "compound eye," culminating several years of ...