A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust sculpted by intense stellar ...

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

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent ...

Scientists thought they saw a distant star swallow a planet for the first time ever. But new observations from the James Webb ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...

With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an ...

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The ...

The Chandra X-ray telescope and other observatories are being used to study stars that could potentially harbor habitable ...

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

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its infrared optics at the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' NGC 1514, a planetary nebula ...