Uncover the Webb Telescope's fascinating discovery of a 34-million-year-old planet-forming disk around a red star.

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to peer into this object flying by itself through our Milky Way ...

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...

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This Hubble image shows a bright, blue, newly formed star in the heart of a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors, creating a cavity. NGC ...

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(CNN) — Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The constant, rapid-fire display ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C.

"The Phoenix cluster has the largest reservoir of hot, cooling gas of any galaxy cluster." How do you cool down a phoenix? I don't mean the mythological birds of flame and rebirth, but rather a ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to take the longest look yet at our galaxy's supermassive black hole — and it's frothing with unusual activity. Situated 26,000 light ...