The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way ...

The Knife Edge Galaxy is located some 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco, according to NASA. NGC 5907's spiral form is oriented edge-on to our planet, granting it a sharp, ...

ASKAP J0107–2347, located around 1.5 billion light-years away, is also remarkable because it features two sets of radio lobes ...

New images suggest the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is on track to become astronomy’s most ambitious and productive eye on the ...

Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than ...

This galaxy, located about 590 million light-years from Earth, has been observed for over a century. Yet, its gravitational lens remained undetected until Euclid’s high-resolution imaging ...

In the 1960s astronomers really caught on to how strange this object is, and Arp dubbed it “the second brightest highly disturbed galaxy in the sky.” NGC 520 glows at magnitude 12.2 and ...

Those telescopes have for years zoomed in on the far corners of the known universe, unveiling planets, stars and galaxies in high resolution. The James Webb Space Telescope, which launched in 2021 ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed Herbig-Haro 49/50, an outflow from a nearby still-forming star, in high-resolution near- and mid-infrared light. The intricate features of the outflow, ...

It’s a Sirius problem. A crime scene specialist is probing the forensics behind how a murder could be investigated in outer space — something he says is “inevitable” in the coming years by ...

High-speed internet directly to your cell phone from outer space. ... AT&T's spectrum on an unmodified Samsung Galaxy S22. ... every bit as bright as the brightest stars in the night sky, ...

Shown in unprecedented resolution, Webb's imagery has enabled scientists to better study star formation in the outer Milky Way, astronomer Natsuko Izumi, who led a study with the latest findings ...