The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared and Mid-Infrared instruments (NIRCam & MIRI) have delivered imagery of ...

The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in ...

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured evidence of it.

Disk galaxies, like our own Milky Way galaxy, commonly consist of both a thick and thin disk of stars—each with different ...

The James Webb telescope has captured some seriously cool direct images of a planet beyond our solar system. This is the ...

The galaxy is 12 million light-years away and contains a supermassive black hole at its centre. It emits a strong jet of material through space. The X-rays from the black hole sound like wind chimes.

First up is WR 124, a type of star called a Wolf-Rayet which is a potential precursor to a black hole. As these old, massive stars come to the end of their lives, they start throwing off layers of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope marks its 35th anniversary with a stunning new image of the Sombrero Galaxy. This detailed view reveals the galaxy's structure, including its bright bulge and dusty disc ...

HH 49/50 as imaged by the Spitzer Space Telescope in 2006. J. Bally Univ. of Colorado et al., JPL-Caltech, NASA. The newly released image of the Cosmic Tornado is a composite of observations from ...

NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope captured the same shot in 2006, with scientists then dubbing the stellar jet “the cosmic tornado.” But it was too fuzzy to make out the background ...

NASA said in a statement it was “a lucky alignment” of the two unrelated objects. NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope captured the same shot in 2006, with scientists then dubbing the stellar jet ...