In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of researchers led by Kristen McQuinn, a scientist at the Space ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit is currently on his third stay on the International Space Station where he works with other astronauts to conduct experiments and maintain the celestial outpost. But in his ...

Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed "Dragon Arc" ...

"We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look like this on the inside — we just ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most complex space observatory that serves thousands of astronomers ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...

Still weeks away from returning to office, Donald Trump is showing himself to be as petty and vindictive as he was in his ...

Gravitational lenses have been used previously to resolve individual stars in the distant Universe. Using the microlensing of ...

The cutting-edge observatory is charged with seeing some of the earliest visible light, and the recent image achieves a new ...

"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...