Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

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

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

Hundreds of millions of Americans will have the chance in March to see the first total lunar eclipse in nearly three years.

The nebulosity of hydrogen gas is revealed with the use of a “Hydrogen-Alpha” filter in an astro image of the Cygnus constellation by Sam Miller, a technician at the Sierra Remote Observatory in ...

YR4 has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in the year 2032. But according to new estimates, it may have an even smaller chance ...

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

which was a lot of "celestial real estate" for Hubble's pinpoint view. So, the panoramic mosaic required hundreds of snapshots taken across 1,000 orbits by the telescope, according to a NASA ...

The VSU Planetarium’s “Dawn of the Space Age” program will begin with a look at the February sky, including planets, stars, ...

a satellite galaxy roughly 200,000 light-years from Earth, lies the young star cluster NGC 602, which is featured in this new image from the NASA James Webb Space Telescope. Star factory ...

In the evolving fields of materials science and 3D printing, engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are exploring novel ways to ...

By the effect thus produced, the globular form of our satellite ... glass at one view; in fact, an entire panorama can be traced, if the relative positions of the axis of the telescope and the ...