"The protostars are midway down the path to becoming mature stars." Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the ...

In addition to helping the researchers nail down the nebula's ellipsoidal structure, the 3D model also confirmed that the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures extraordinary images of young stars, shedding light on star formation in the Orion Nebula.

The James Webb Space Telescope is much larger than the Hubble and instead of orbiting the Earth, operates from a stationary ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding faster than predicted by ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of interacting galaxies Arp 142 seems to sing in primary colors. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel ...

In 2011, the 30-year space shuttle program ended as Atlantis touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With five shuttles ...

How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?