Cats are a cosmic mystery, creatures of stardust and moonlight. We may not be able to solve their endless ineffability, but ...

The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed thick, dusty layers of the Cat's Claw Nebula, a region of star formation about ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing the cosmos. To mark Webb's third year of operations, NASA shared an image ...

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Learn more about how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture more of our stunning universe.

The image reveals swirling gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula-our nearby universe’s most prolific star factory, 160,000 ...