Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

NASA's next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the ...

It has been in institution in Northallerton for 60 years, with generations of children going along to choose gifts that can ...

A small star named M82 X-2 breaks physical barriers, as NASA's NuSTAR confirms it shines 10 million times brighter than the ...

Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of ...

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

Nobel Laureate Reinhard Genzel and 30 scientists urge Chile to protect the pristine skies over Paranal Observatory from light ...

This infrared view offers the clearest look yet at how dwarf galaxies merge, evolve, trade gas and ignite waves of new stars.

Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes Many of the images taken by ...