The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.

"We described them as 'never growing up' because they have maintained their primordial disk long after the expected time frame for primordial disks to have dissipated." ...

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is scheduled to launch after February 27, 2025 ...

Scientists have unlocked the 3D structure of molecular clouds in the Milky Way’s center, using a groundbreaking X-ray technique. These cosmic clouds, vital for star formation, were illuminated by past ...

The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will take stock of water’s cosmic origins by scanning the galaxy for hidden reservoirs.

At the center of the Milky Way, a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* is never at rest. Using NASA’s James Webb ...

Vandenberg Space Force Base, in coordination with NASA, is set to provide a comprehensive mission overview for the eagerly ...

Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...

The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb Telescope recently imaged.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has peered deeper than ever into a quasar, revealing a bunch of “weird” features in its […] ...