Named Kohoutek 4-55, the nebula was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Planetary nebulae like Kohoutek 4-55 are the ...

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

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent final stages of a dying star's life.

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE mission, to make infrared observations. This was the latest in a line of space-based, infrared observatories, and it cost about ...

A deep field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI | mash mix: Space.com Music: Tranquil Dawn by Amber Glow / courtesy of ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

The PRIME telescope, operated by Osaka University and others in South Africa, which can potentially study the Milky Way's ...

High school senior Matteo Paz stunned the astronomy world by uncovering 1.5 million previously unknown cosmic objects using a ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it ...

What did Gaia achieve? And perhaps most importantly, why was it my favourite space telescope? Gaia was retired for a simple ...

This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or ...