See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years away and has also been imaged by Hubble Space Telescope, comparison shown ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop. SpaceX launches Space ...

Space NASA unveils 9 stunning snapshots of the cosmos in X-ray vision: Space photo of the week Astronomy Soar through 44 million stars in Gaia telescope's latest 3D map of our galaxy — Space photo of ...

Astronomers normally observe galaxies by observing light these objects emit, but some tricky galaxies require a different approach. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A new, highly detailed view of the spiral galaxy NGC 6744. Credit: ESA / Euclid / Euclid Consortium / NASA // Image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay) / G. Anselmi A space telescope has ...

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Calling all astronomy enthusiasts! Want to be the first human to lay eyes on a galaxy? Now is your chance! The European Space Agency (ESA) needs your help. The space agency has launched a new citizen ...

Located only 56 million light-years away in Ursa Major, NGC 4102 gives astronomers a nearby target to study how these active ...

Researchers have found that the supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*, is spinning so rapidly that it is altering the fabric of space-time around it.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, astronomers reported Monday. The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles ...