Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

Learn about the thermal light echo, observed by NASA, that causes intricate layers of interstellar gas and dust to emit an ...

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Carbon-rich cosmic dust comes from different sources and spreads out into space, where it's necessary for life and for the formation of rocky planets like ours.

While the JWST was observing TRAPPIST-1, the system with seven exoplanets, an international team of researchers, including the Astrophysics Department of CEA Paris-Saclay, noticed that celestial ...

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission, poised for launch later this year, promises to revolutionize our understanding of exoplanet ...

Astronomers have unveiled an explosive cosmic fireworks display of stars interacting with their environment. This dazzling ...

This colorful view of N79 centers on a star-forming molecular cloud complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

JWST MIRI images in the F1130W filter of the resolved stellar outflows in the four M-type supergiants of Westerlund 1.

Space exploration also helps us understand the building blocks of the universe by studying cosmic phenomena like black holes, ...

Artist Ashley Zelinskie's new VR work is called "Twin Quasar." Two roads diverge between a pair of quasars, and I'm sorry I can't travel both — actually, wait, I can travel both.